Anjin Investments means serious business
This article was written by Professor Tshuma in Chiadzwa on 16 December, at 11 : 43 AM Print
…as industrial action and communication breakdown is contained
THE CHINESE owned Anjin Investments Diamond Mining Company in Chiadzwa has invested more than US$400 million in its mining operations, a scene that shows seriousness.
Company director, Mr Munyaradzi Machacha said Anjin Investments, which started operations about one and half years ago, was there to stay and was keen to further bring more investments in the country as time goes on.
“We are here to stay and to prove this; we have invested more than US$310 million on this project which we feel is a win win situation between the people of Zimbabwe and AFECC who owns Anjin Investments,” he said.
Mr Machacha also said the company was also an observer of the labour laws which stipulate the respect of labour concerns.
He said this after a point was raised on the recent sit in by the company’s employees allegedly for poor remuneration among other concerns.
“We observe the labour laws which stipulate that every company operative in the country must have a workers’ committee, which we have.
“After the one day sit in, we met with the representatives of the workers and we agreed on what they were querying and they are back at work as we speak.”
He said there was a communication barrier between the Zimbabweans and the Chinese but the company has managed to contain and address it as communication breakdown was now a history.
“Besides, we used to have communication a communication barrier problem but now, they have managed to improvise and ‘create’ their own language which they can both understand without any problem,” he said.
Mr Machacha said Anjin was paying salaries and wages that were above the National Employment Council (NEC) negotiated rates for their employees.
He said Anjin was the largest diamond miner in the world with several contracts across the globe.
On the issue of the recent developments which saw Mbada Diamonds and Marange Resources put under the illegal sanctions, Mr Machacha said the decision was very upsetting and was unjustified.
He however said he do not see Anjin Investments put under the sanctions list as they do not ‘deserve them’.
Meanwhile, the chief security office of Anjin Investments said intruders were still frequenting the diamond fields as they, on average per week, capture around five illegal panners.
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HAWK MANN, 4 months ago
In view of the way things are in Zimbawe, I find this comment most disturbing:
THE Chinese-owned Anjin Investments Diamond Mining Company in Chiadzwa has invested more than US$400 million in ITS (note royal ITS) mining operations, a scene that shows seriousness.
Why ITS mining operations?
Is it that serious about developing the country that it will be investing some of the US$400m in those in the south-west of the country, a section of the Nation who has always been side-lined? Who had to migrate into Mutare and Gweru to find jobs.
What legacy will the Chinese leave Zimbabwe?
Please tell the world that Zimbabweans are (not will be) benefitting already as well, and indicate in what manner?
Paying ZESA’s maintenance bills would be a good start so that Electricity is a stable commodity that puts the factories and the country back on their feet.
Who is working Chiadzwa? Zimbabweans, or foreign imported labour?
In Angola the Chinese import their own labour (allegedly from the Prisons in China as these are too overcrowded) and do everything themselves while the young Angolans watch from the shadows, totally disillusioned. Their parents managed to rid the country of the Portuguese and their children are no better off.
Dont be like Cameron who made a lot of hot-air promises to govern the UK.
Unemployment is now the highest it has been in 17 years.
Zimbabweans are amongst the hardest working in all of Africa, and all we want is well-paid jobs for which we will work our butts off so that we can put our kids through school and university, take them to efficiently-run clinics (which must all be financed by the foriegn mining conglomerates who must put their money into these essential facets and others like protecting Wildlife so that Tourism thrives in our country). Convicne them because it sounds a fair deal if all you want are our Votes.
We in Africa have one fault. Whatever we are donated, we think it will be incoming free gratis for ever, and we fail to appreciate it or maintain it. We must learn from our mistakes.
In Zambia they have been waiting for years for the West to donate spare parts to get their Railway Engines up and going – until then they lay rusting in the railway yards. And the female employees on the Zambian Railways, managed by the Chinese, are only earning US$20 for a 48 hour week.
We really do need these foreign investors to put their investments where their mouths are and not
bleed the country dry and ignore our needs – we should have learned from the Rhodesians who left and took everything with them. 30 years on its now the Chinese. Who will it be tomorrow?
Realise one thing – Zimbabwe has the Minerals and its the only thing all these Mining conglomerates from Canada, China and Anglo America want from us. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Will we have coachloads of tourists in the years to come travelling to Chiadzwa to gawp at a gaping great empty hole such as that which now lies vacant in Kimberley – the diamonds in Kimberley are finished and De Beers have sold out to Anglo America.