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Title: | Zimbabwe's clogged political drain and open diamond pipe |
Authors: | Bond, Patrick Sharife, Khadija |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244) |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 132 |
Pages: | 351-365 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | diamonds political economy trade international agreements corruption |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2012.688648 |
Abstract: | Zimbabwe diamonds (discovered in Marange in 2006) represent a windfall that, if captured, could finance a significant percentage of reconstruction costs for Zimbabwe's struggling economy. However, this paper argues that Mugabe's security leadership allegedly represent the key military personnel involved in the daily management and operations of the most important agent in Marange, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Company Ltd. of China, thus gaining most from the diamond find. Moreover, the paper shows that the Kimberley Process (KP) - an international initiative created and backed by governments, multinationals, and civil society organizations to diminish the trade in conflict or 'blood' diamonds - excludes the world's primary agents of 'conflict': governments. It also excludes private mining corporations that partner with the governments in developing countries to extract the diamonds. Progress in Zimbabwe won't begin until the politicaldrain is unclogged in the wake of free and fair elections, and until the pipe leading from one of the world's largest-ever diamond finds to corrupt military coffers is conclusively blocked. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |