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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 12/03/2012
Reporter: Ginny Stein
There is concern that money from diamond mining in Zimbabwe is not flowing through to the country’s economy.

Transcript
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: A battle is brewing in Zimbabwe over control of the country’s newly-found diamond wealth. Three companies have been licensed to mine and export the diamonds, potentially worth billions of dollars, but the benefits are yet to be seen by the people of Zimbabwe. Even the prime minister claims he doesn’t know where the money is going, and that’s straining an already fragile power-sharing arrangement.

Africa correspondent Ginny Stein reports.

GINNY STEIN, REPORTER: Once tarnished as blood diamonds, Zimbabwe’s gems have been cleared for sale.

OBERT MPOFU, ZIMBABWE MINES MINISTER: They’ve already started auctioning. I mean, the DMC has sold their diamonds, Engin has sold their diamonds and all the recently certified companies have sold their diamonds.

GINNY STEIN: Mining at Chiadzwa, possibly the world’s richest alluvial diamond find, is now operating around the clock.

TENDAI BITI, ZIMBABWE FINANCE MINISTER: Zimbabwe’s diamonds will be a billion-dollar industry. There’s no question about it. The finds at Chiadzwa are amazing and unbelievable finds by any standards.

GINNY STEIN: While the peak diamond body may have approved their sale, no-one is quite sure just who’s profiting, let alone the country’s prime minister.

MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, ZIMBABWE PRIME MINISTER: The amount of activity there is quite extensive. But what do we show for it?

TAKURA ZHANGAZHA, INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ANALYST: It is a good thing Zimbabwe has diamonds, it is a bad thing that the government is not utilising them transparently and with honesty.

GINNY STEIN: In Mutare the capital of what’s now become known as the diamond province of Zimbabwe, revenues from the mines are being closely watched. With little transparency to date, just who is profiting remains the key question.

Farai Maguwu has been keeping a close eye on Chiadzwa since the Government sent in security forces to seize control at the height of a diamond panning frenzy. He spent time in jail for speaking out about human rights abuses at the diamond fields.

FARAI MAGUWU, DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: I think now we have got about three companies which have been licensed to export now. Within a few weeks we should be able to review whether that decision means we now have some paper trial of how our diamonds are being exported, whether this money’s being properly accounted for and whether this money’s making an impact on the Zimbabwean people.

GINNY STEIN: Three years into a power-sharing government made up of unequal partners, control of this wealth could decide the country’s future. With president Robert Mugabe one of the world’s longest-serving leaders seeking re-election, there are fears that the country’s new riches will fund campaigns and even renewed violence.

Finance minister Tendai Biti belongs to prime minister Tsvangirai’s party.

TENDAI BITI: There is no transparency in the present moment. The Chinese that are there, the Lebanese that are there – no-one is sure of what is happening vis-a-vis the revenue transmission. They are Zimbabwean assets and they have to benefit the Zimbabwean people. So far they’re not benefiting Zimbabwean people.

GINNY STEIN: How much is it actually costing Zimbabwe, the leakage from the mines? Do you have a figure?

TENDAI BITI: It’s costing, ah, it’s costing, ah, Zimbabwe, yes. I can’t give you, you know, privileged information on the figures that I have, but the fact of the matter’s that there’s a gap.

GINNY STEIN: But is it $1 million, is it a billion?

TENDAI BITI: I can’t give you privileged information. Yes, the figure is close to billions.

GINNY STEIN: At 88, Mugabe must want an election this year regardless of committing to electoral and constitutional reforms. For now, Zimbabwe continues to mark time.

JOHN ROBERTSON, INDEPENDENT ECONOMIC ANALYST: While he is there, you can pretty well write down exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow and as long as he’s there. I could still write down today what’s gonna be happening in a year’s time if he’s still there.

GINNY STEIN: Which is?

JOHN ROBERTSON: Nothing. Virtually nothing is allowed to happen, again because they are fearful of the possibility that other people’s success will diminish their authority.

GINNY STEIN: The first step to real change is tied to a new constitution and that could be ready within weeks. While term limits are likely to be set, a transitional clause is expected to allow president Mugabe to run for office again.

Ginny Stein, Lateline.

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by Nancy C. Anderson

I asked a girlfriend who was recently divorced, “When did you first notice that your marriage was in trouble?” She replied, “Looking back, I see that it had been slowly crumbling away for years.

It happened so gradually that I can’t even tell you when we stopped having fun or when we stopped holding hands. He started spending more time at work, and I was relieved when he called to say he wouldn’t be home for dinner. We didn’t have huge fights, but we were both critical and impatient. He says that he ‘fell out of love’ because I didn’t care about his needs.”

“Do you think he ever loved you?” I asked.

“Oh, I know he did! When we first got married, we finished each other’s sentences and almost read each other’s minds. We used to share all our dreams and make wonderful plans for our future. . . . But the last few years, I got too busy with the kids and outside interests, and he poured himself into his career. Our marriage was just on auto pilot.”

“Then how did it crash?” I asked.

“There was a woman at his office who, he says, was everything I wasn’t [exciting, interesting, flirtatious, and encouraging], and he left me and our two children so he could be with her. There wasn’t any one big thing that killed our love, just a million little things.”

Her story is all too common. A verse in the Bible warns us about the small stuff: “The little foxes are ruining the vineyards” (Song 2:15 TLB). Sometimes horrific tornadoes, like the death of a child or mental illness, intrude into our vineyards and ruin them. Perhaps they are flooded by physical or verbal abuse, but more likely, the little foxes of indifference, neglect, criticism, or score keeping creep through the hedges and rob our marriages of their fruit.

Here is a little fox that sneaks into many marriages: It’s easier to criticize than to praise, and it’s hard to keep our mouths shut when our mate makes a mistake. Ladies, if you want your husband to enjoy your company, remember this important truth: You are not his mother. It’s not your job to correct him, especially about insignificant things.

We recently got a first-hand demonstration when we went to visit our neighbors. Ron asked them, “How was your vacation?”

Joe said, “It was a wonderful trip! We left early to avoid the heavy traffic.”

Sally interrupted, “Well, it wasn’t that early. It was 7:00. I remember because I looked at the clock. Did you look at the clock Joe?”

“No dear, I did not look at the clock. Anyway, it felt early to me. So we drove to this rustic little mom-and-pop restaurant in the mountains and had some of the best pancakes in the world.”

“I can’t believe you thought those were good pancakes! I thought they were lumpy and cold and too expensive.”

“Okay, maybe they weren’t so great, but I was hungry, so I liked them. By dinnertime, we made it all the way to the cabin. It’s four hundred miles-”

“Actually, dear, it’s three hundred-eighty-seven miles. I looked at the odometer. Did you look at the odometer?”

“No, dear, I didn’t.” He sighed and continued, “I cooked up some juicy T-bone steaks for dinner and-”

“We had the steaks on Friday, not Thursday. I know because I had a headache on Friday and steaks always give me a headache.”

“You’re giving me a headache right now. And if you don’t stop interrupting me and correcting me, I’m going to quit talking.”

“I’m just trying to help you. I want you to get your facts right. Boy, you sure are grumpy.”

Joe stood up, mumbled a good-bye, and clomped out of the room.

Sally said, “I don’t know what’s wrong with him. We haven’t been getting along lately. He hardly ever talks to me anymore.”

That’s because she kept shutting him down. He was excited about telling us his story, but with each of her corrections, he lost enthusiasm, until he finally gave up.

If you tend to be a corrector, ask yourself, “Do I want to be right, or do I want to be loved?” The divorce courts are full of lonely people who were always “right.”

I’m not telling you that you should never correct each other. If someone has made a serious error, pull him or her aside and whisper, “You must have forgotten that Aunt Betty’s new husband doesn’t like to be called by her old husband’s name.” In general, however, unless the slip is a biggie, let it go.

I was leading a round-table discussion at a MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group. One of the women said, “I’m so upset with my husband! Just before I left the house this morning, he was taking the laundry out of the dryer and was folding the towels all wrong! I’ve shown him how to do it a hundred times, but he never gets it right!”

I formed a “time-out T” with my hands and said, “Whoa Nellie, you’re forgetting the big picture . . . . He’s doing laundry! My husband hasn’t washed a load of towels since Nixon was president.” I took a survey of the other women, and only one of them had a hubby who was laundry literate.

“You have a jewel of a husband!” I said. “Next time he’s folding towels, no matter how crooked they are, I think you should give him a big kiss and a ‘Thank you!'”

Do you remember the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? If we whine about every little thing, our spouses will tune us out. Then when something serious is troubling us, they won’t hear us.

If we guard against the little verbal foxes and keep our vineyards safe and healthy, the fruits of our marriage will be sweet and tender.