Obert Mpofu invites EU to visit Marange diamond fields
13 June 2012
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Harare(ZimEye)-Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu has invited the western diplomats to visit the controversial Marange Diamond fields as his ZANU(PF) party intensifies its efforts to lobby the west to lift sanctions.
“The EU and western diplomats are visiting the Marange Diamond fields next week .In fact they asked for that permission long back and we have now allowed them but they are reluctant to go because they expected us to refuse .This is the kind of duplicity and hypocrisy we are getting from people who are just looking for faults in a system,” Mines and Mining Development Minister announced during an Accountability Conference organised by Centre for Public Accountability in Harare early this week.
Over the years government has been reluctant to allow anyone other than President Robert Mugabe ally to visit the diamond extraction area, citing security reasons.
This made the public to believe that something amiss was happening at Marange.
Issues of gross human rights abuse by the military and corruption by senior ZANU(PF) officials have been raised by the civic society.
But the European Union delegation in Zimbabwe through its ambassador Aldo Dell Arricia in an interview with ZimEye Tuesday in Harare confirmed Minister Mpofu invited them not the reverse as Minister Mpofu had put it.
“It is not that we have been given the green light to visit Marange Diamond fields by its Mines Minister Obert Mpofu who invited us. The visit is going to be on at the end of this month. We will be there for few days in order to have a firsthand impression of the situation and of course how the mining plants are working because this is an important element in the economy of Zimbabwe. And as heads of European countries we are very much interested in seeing the operations of these mines,” Aldo Dell’Ariccia.
Minister Mpofu said the reason why they were reluctant to allow the west to tour the diamond fields is that they did not want them to know ZANU(PF)’s anti –sanctions strategies.
Marange Resources and Mbada Diamond Mining operating in Marange, were added to US Treasury Office of Foreign Affairs Control’s special designated nationals list.
The two Diamond Mining Companies were punished because they are operating under the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation which is under sanctions.(ZimEye,Zimbabwe)

20 Replies to “Obert Mpofu invites EU to visit Marange diamond fields”

  1. It is sad that a nation like Zimbabwe has people who hate each other so much that they use such language against each other and against their leaders on unintelligent assumptions and suspicions which are based on unresearched information from a biased media.Please behave Zimbabwe is supposed to be a country with highly educated and respectable people.We should be proud of those who are creating employment for our people.Whether Shona or Ndebele.People like Mpofu should be commended.

  2. The EU will simply castigate and recommend on the obvious same as what Pillay the UN Human Rights Commissioner did when she was invited by the prophetic Chinamasa.

  3. Did l request 4 your response mwana we small house Mukadota? Jus vomit yo sh*t if u can and shut up if u cant or dnt.

  4. @Bla Miki,
    You called me a dofo once. Your language on this site is dispicable. Your Zanu Patriotic Fools party and Matibili have done nothing but make us laughing stock in Africa. Matibili and his cabal have stolen land, diamonds now it’s banks and what do we have to show for it? Matibili is now the biggest land baron in Zimbabwe. Wake up and smell tne coffee. These Zanoids cast the leadership code to plunder our resources. That is the reason you are in some foreign land posting vile sentiments on this site. Go back to Zim.

  5. The truth is the Europeans and the U.S.A. are trying to isolate Zim diamonds under the guise of blood diamonds. The noise that characterised the last KP meeting to re-define blood diamonds by bulldozing human rights into the defination was targetted at no other state than Zim. Their goal is to close all avenues that are giving Zim a breath of fresh air.
    Therefore the invitation is meant to shame the devil. Currently the U.S.A. is terrorising all Zim diamond buyers, why? Is this love for Zimbabweans? Let them come and see that their arguments are naught, then their guilty help us to receive God’s blessings through the discovery of more valuable minerals.

  6. The silly zanu muppets have at long last realised that even their supposed friends and bum chums the Chinese are more interested in 200 billion dollars per year of trade with the west than 200 million of trade per year with zanuoid cavemen.

  7. What does human rights abuse havn 2 do with our diamonds u brain washed fools. Its them who want us and our country more than vice vesa. U mdc idiots support them yet u cry when we sell the diamonds back door and u dnt get the money. The diamonds wil stil have btter buyers. Mucha.ma.ma vana vema small house vakajaidzwa nezvikomba zvamai.

  8. Hey Bla Miki why don’t you do your country music faggot kareoke singing with Johnny Nkomo for the mean time, this debating stuff seems to be beyond your retarded thinking.

  9. It looks like mickey mouse has his furry balls in a vice. Squealing, bleating and farting like a typical zanoid pink arrsed monkey…..ha ha ha ha. LOOK east my anus…. more like confused revolutionaries who happen to be the real sellouts.

  10. Bla miki panyo pako u must be mpofus great great grandfather. using magaro ako as ur brain is not wise at all. Now u are licking the white bum. Shame on u

  11. Bla miki u sound like a mad confused idiot. What transparent are u talking about. Cant u see that we are now crying for the west. U can say all the nonesence about them but u have now realised there relevence. Wake up and smell the coffee u fool.

  12. There is nothing positive you have said above apart from hate rantings and garbage you foolish HIV infested Statesgay. The EU and tge US are vigorously campaigning to our diamond trading partners against buying our diamond citing several negative things about Marange diamonds. By inviting both dignatries from all over, we are trying to shame the devil (mdc and associates) so that they have first hand information. Do you know that Gift Chimanikire officially meets Minister Mpofu almost every working day? Urimbwa amai vanoba, kunyepa zvese nekukoirisa mahara, kusviba kunge pasi pemasvada amambo wako Morgay! Stupid useless idiot.

  13. pachakuti pako iwe Bla Miki, they coming to tour fr what, heeeeeee? We said we dont want 2 see these western assholeS AT ALL, now they being invited for what, heeeee? u are fucking sellouts, desperate ZANUnazi`s. Inga BOb said he will never ever compromise with principles ko ichii chii to invite these idiots from western hell 2 come and access what heeeeeeee? iwe Bla Miki was thnkin u are a true Comrade but i see with yo comment kuti uri duzvi duzvi chairo, what is “transparent” about this we do our own things and keep them to ourselves. Zvakafanana nekusvira mukadzi wako any way u want 2 svira her then she complaints and u cal baba vepa next door kuti come and see whats wrong wth my wife handiti vanongosvirawo?

  14. The EU and other diplomats have only been asked to tour the mining fields and not be part of the mining structures. The ministry here is trying to be as transparent as possible to the waffling European community.

  15. So end of day. . We still lick up for the whites hey. . . Just so they can lift the sancations.idots u are.u still lick up your own vomit? I thought you once said Let them keep they England,let them keep they america i keep my zimbabwe.

  16. We don’t need the West, we don’t need the British, we don’t need the Americans–we don’t need ????on and on and on, muchingotinyaudza-nxa!! Nhasi mavekuvakoka, komaZhing Zhong enyu aripi? So?

  17. The EU and western diplomats are visiting the Marange Diamond fields next week. In fact they asked for that permission long back and we have now allowed them but they are reluctant to go because they expected us to refuse??? Minister Mpofu said the reason why they were reluctant to allow the west to tour the diamond fields is that they did not want them to know ZANU(PF)’s anti –sanctions strategies. This guy is a joker!

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