Why Zim Need Transparency in Mining

Barely two weeks after the global conference on the Extractive Industry's Transparency Initiative from February 24-25 in Lima, Peru, President Robert Mugabe publicly stated that an estimated $15 billion of diamond revenue from Marange diamond operations had been lost. In the same statement, he quantified that the government might have received less than $2 billion since the onset of formal diamond mining in 2009. ......