Robert Mugabe will have to answer about his diamond mining pronouncements
Harare — Former president Robert Mugabe will not appear before Zimbabwe’s parliament as scheduled on Wednesday to answer questions on diamond mining operations, a legislator said. Temba Mliswa, who leads the parliamentary committee on mines, said the clerk of parliament had not written to Mugabe to invite him to appear. "It has been delayed but that resolution still stands," Mliswa said. "He will have to appear before the committee whether he likes it or not." The committee had ordered Mugabe to face legislators over his previous pronouncements that the state had been deprived of at least $15bn in diamond revenue by mining companies. Mugabe said in March 2016 that the country was robbed of the revenue by diamond companies, including joint ventures between Chinese companies and the army, police and intelligence services, whose operations were shielded from public scrutiny. Specifically, he said Zimbabwe lost $15bn from the Marange diamond fields, more than 400km east of the capital. ...
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