There are no more diamonds to talk about for revenue in Zimbabwe, Media and Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has revealed.
The country should begin looking elsewhere for its salvation, Moyo hinted in an online forum.
ZANU PF is on record claiming that diamond discoveries would boost Zimbabwe’s  economy to the point where foreign aid would be a thing of the past after the gems’ discoveries were made public in 2005. But barely 10 years later as Zimbabwe struggles to feed its own citizens, the information minister has said there are no more alluvial diamonds to talk about.
Moyo told forumists on microblogging website Twitter, “Diamond revenues from alluvial diamond mining have dramatically shrunk. We now need to come terms with this reality,” said Moyo in response to a question on where diamond revenue was being channelled.
At the height of the diplomatic fall-out with the West President Robert Mugabe also declared that the country’s problems would be a “thing of the past following the discovery of about a quarter of the world’s diamond deposits”.
Moyo ‘s admission comes two years after former Finance Minister Tendai Biti protested that diamond revenues were being siphoned out of the country by ZANU PF through the backdoor.