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Robert Mugabe looks at a picture of himself taken by MDC-Tsvangirai Minister of Water Affairs, Sipepa Nkomo, who is part of his delegation in Copenhagen. This was yesterday, 16 December 2009. Meantime, back home, it is now clear just how much of a charade the whole mining thing at the Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe (the fourth largest in the world) is. Harare , Zimbabwe, 17 December 2009 Regular readers will, of course, remember me saying that of the two companies operating at the Chiadzwa Diamond Fields in Marange, Zimbabwe, Mbada was the secretive one, whose partners could not really be established and whose officials are reluctant to speak even to State media in Zimbabwe. Well,  the court case brought by Africa Consolidated Resources to have the two companies, Canadile and Mbada, evicted from the fields, has forced the Zimbabwe government to come clean. First, we were told that Mbada was a South African company that had partnered with the Zimbabwe Mining Development Company (ZMDC). That...

Harare, Zimbabwe, 16 December 2009 Robert Mugabe and a huge delegation are in Europe, despite the travel ban. They are attending a Climate Summit convened by the United Nations. To show just how much of a jaunt this is, one must ask oneself what on earth a Minister of Agricultural Mechanisation (Joseph Made) is doing at that Summit. Mugabe, if fiscal responsibility and restraint meant anything to him, would probably have taken only the Minister of Environment and Tourism with him. But, of course, he had to buy the loyalty of a host of other Ministers from his party who would otherwise not be allowed into Europe. As for the MDC ministers, he needs to give them this special treatment at the expense of the taxpayer in order to compromise them,  just as he has done by giving dozens of them some of the farms that have been invaded since the formation of the Inclusive Government. BACK TO FRONT PAGE FOR LATEST ZIMBABWE NEWS