Zim diamond firm ups wages to end strike

Anjin, the biggest miner operating in Zimbabwe's controversial Marange diamond fields, said on Saturday a two-day strike by workers had ended after management agreed to a 25-percent wage hike, Reuters reported cited by Polishedprices.com.
In previous strikes by local employees, Chinese-run Anjin was accused of unfair treatment including beatings by management, the report said.
Wages were the focus of the latest walkout, Munyaradzi Machacha, a director at Anjin, told Reuters.
"We had a strike where workers wanted their pay to be increased," Machacha said.
"The workers have since gone back to work after they were awarded a 25 percent increase in both wages and salaries."
Keeping diamond mining on track is vital for the government, which owns half of Anjin and relies on the industry for revenue, said the report. Anjin employs 1,500 Zimbabweans and more than 200 Chinese, it said.
Anjin is a joint venture between the government's Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and China's state-owned Anhui Foreign and Economic Construction Company.
It plans to mine up to 10 million carats this year, the report said.