![]() “Yes there are 84 families in concession E and around 256 in concession Q. He said there was no more land for relocating families that were still in the mining concession after Minister Chidhakwa asked DMC management if they still had families to be relocated. “It doesn’t speak well of you as our partner,” said Minister Mushohwe. Why is it that our partners in Government are not complying? It doesn’t speak well of us as a Government. “People look around and say private companies without Government are complying. But to date, nothing has been remitted and yet we have 50 percent shareholding as Government. “There were pledges given to the extent that even the President was given a US$1,5 million (paper) cheque to show to people that this is money coming from this company, one of you. He made the remarks at DMC, which was Minister Chidhakwa’s first port of call during his three-day familiarisation tour. Villagers, he said, were livid with the companies after promising to disburse the money after launching of the Trust. Meanwhile, Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister Christopher Mushohwe, said diamond mining companies were still to honour their Community Share Ownership Trust under Marange-Zimunya. Mr Machacha said some of the dump trucks, excavators and front-end loaders were inactive. Of the seven processing plants that we have, we are only using four at the moment.” We have also put some of the machinery on idle mode. “We are taking these measures in order to remain viable. We intend through natural wastage to reduce this figure further to about 560 Zimbabweans by March. “We have since reduced the number of Zimbabweans to about 750 and the Chinese (about) 95. “At the beginning, we had a workforce of about 1 300 Zimbabweans and 500 Chinese to make a total of 1 800,” said Mr Machacha. He said the actions were cost-cutting measures on the back of depletion of alluvial diamonds forcing them to dig deeper for conglomerates which he said were not commercially viable using current technology. Anjin director Mr Munyaradzi Machacha, disclosed this during a tour of the diamond mining firms in Chiadzwa by Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa last week. About 190 of the remaining 845 workers still face the chop as the company targets to remain with at least 655 workers by March next year. Mining constituted US$2 billion of the US$3,3 billion total exports in 2012, meaning the lion’s share oiled foreign economiesĪnjin Investments has retrenched at least 950 workers out of close to 1 800 people since it started operations in 2010.
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