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FACETS OF POWER
POLITICS, PROFITS AND PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF ZIMBABWE'S BLOOD DIAMONDS |
| By: |
Richard Saunders (Editor), Tinashe Nyamunda (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1868149757 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781868149759 |
| Publisher: |
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2016 |
| Pages: |
236 |
| Description: |
The diamond fields of Chiadzwa in the Marange District, among the world's largest sources of rough diamonds, have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006. Facets of Power is the first comprehensive account of the emergence, meaning and profound impact of Chiadzwa's diamonds. |
| Synopsis: |
The diamond fields of Chiadzwa in the Marange District, among the world's largest sources of rough diamonds, have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political economy, control of Chiadzwa's diamonds was hotly contested. By 2007 a new case of 'blood diamonds' had emerged, in which the country's security forces engaged with informal miners and black market dealers in the exploitation of rough diamonds, violently disrupting local communities and looting a key national resource. The formalisation of diamond mining in 2010 introduced new forms of large-scale theft, displacement and rights abuses, with as much as $13 billion now estimated by government to have gone missing. Facets of Power is the first comprehensive account of the emergence, meaning and profound impact of Chiadzwa's diamonds. Drawing on new fieldwork and published sources, the contributors present a graphic and accessibly written narrative of corruption and greed, as well as resistance by those who have suffered at the hands of the mineral's secretive and violent beneficiaries. If the lessons of resistance have been mostly disheartening, they also point towards more effective strategies for managing public resources, and mounting democratic challenges to elites whose power is sustained by preying on them. |
| Illustrations: |
3 maps, 3 tables, 13 black and white photographs |
| Publication: |
South Africa |
| Imprint: |
Wits University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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