Mugabe accuses De Beers of looting Zim diamonds
Thursday, March 11, 2010
President Robert Mugabe is quoted by the state-run Herald newspaper last week as fingering De Beers among other multinational firms as looters in the Marange diamond fields by pretending to be carrying out exploration work.
Asked to elaborate, Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba, told Mmegi that for 15 years the Zimbabwe government believed De Beers was only prospecting and carrying out tests when the company was actually mining.
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