Army, cops vacate Zim diamond fields

What ZANU say, and what ZANU do are entirely different things.

Why dont we send a reporter to Marange and actually see what's going on? Considerring we are all still waiting for Mugabe to announce the media commission he's had the names for for a month.

And has everybody noticed that after SA blocked the UN security council to protect a violent corrupt govt beating and cheatig its dead people into voting for it, it is now SA firms that are helping to enslave the peasants, steal their land and mine blood diamonds for a corrupt racist regime of notorious liars and theives?

But we must all remember that this would only be "neo-colonialism" if it was a white country:

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861682940/neocolonialism.html

They are probably needed to break heads for the chief looney elsewhere in Zimbabwe.

HI Alasdair,

And the SA Company is actually a 'scrap metal comany' whose Zim diamond exploration arm is registered in? Madagascar, or is it Mauritius. I wonder if the 51% rule applies; would the SA scarp metal group (invested into by Old Mutual) hire 51% of their workforce from Zim military/police? Would that make them Zim enough? Where would the necessary skills to mine diamonds come from? Oh my poor head.

Eh? Zimbabwe has turned it's back on the sun. Now the "lucky few" are scratching around in the dirt looking for the shiney stones they can sell for US$? The ministry of agriculture has raised only 12% of it's budget. Agriculture has effectively been disincentivised. No one wants to "stand out" by having a thriving farm right now... it's the quickest way to get yourself into trouble. Google Earthing Zimbabwe will give you a good idea of how deep the malaise really goes. Compared to the Free State Zimbabwe is moribund - compare the two from space... Zimbabwe has this rash where the bush is taking over where the farms used to be. Mad Bob has decreed 5 white farmers ONLY in each province, so the BIPA really excludes South Africans who already have an investment in Zimbabwe going forward. The economy has gone to sh*t. Who would want to invest there when they are talking about "taking" 50% of the investment as you get off the plane as part of their indigenisation program? The facts are the facts. http://www.slideshare.net/Sokwanele/zimbabwe-economy-october-2009