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Zimbabwe

Obert Moses Mpofu

Date of Birth: 12 October 1951


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Diplomacy by other means

Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu rounded on Moyo for his ideological weaknesses...


Abbey's all clear

Chikane was evidently under pressure: the Marange diamond fields are reputedly the richest in the world and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu estimates that exports from the field are worth US$1...


Spiriting away diamonds

Mines Minister Obert Mpofu in evidence to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee suggests Canning’s figures are twice the real earnings...


The diamond mine drama

In evidence to a parliamentary committee this month Mines Minister Obert Mpofu (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front AC Vol 51 No 6) admitted that his Ministry had no diamond expertise that in his opinion everyone in the diamond business was crooked and that desperate for foreign currency there was no option but to go along with the ones who seemed least crooked...


Petrified Politburos

As a result the very substantial figure of Obert Mpofu fills the economic seat...


Economic clouds, platinum lining

The ZANU-PF Mines Minister Obert Mpofu is far from the sharpest knife in the cabinet but the stranglehold of the parastatal Zimbabwe Mineral and Development Corporation has been broken...


Blood diamonds and old soldiers

Amid growing reports of Chinese involvement Mines Minister Obert Mpofu remains tight-lipped and parsimonious with information although it has been announced that a Chinese company the Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Company (Anjin) has a major interest in a third concession that has been granted...


Matebeleland fallout

Nkomo who is ZANU-PF National Chairman has the nomination of the debilitated party in Bulawayo; Minister of Mines Obert Mpofu has that of Matebeleland North where he was Governor until last year; Matebeleland South has reneged on its pledge to Nkomo and has now put forward Naison Ndhlovu the Deputy Speaker of the Senate...


After Msika - a new pecking order

There are many contenders including Ambassador to South Africa Simon Khaya Moyo Mines Minister Obert Mpofu Sikhanyiso Ndlovu (in the Politburo not government) and even Kembo Mohadi (co-Minister of Home Affairs)...


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