Mbada Diamonds is overridden by industrial actions in a wage dispute with its workers, reports New Zimbabwe. The company has not paid its employees since September.
A workers' representative Willard Zviripi said that a representative group of about 30 disgruntled employees picketed the company's Harare headquarters demanding outstanding salaries.
The employee mentioned that the workers did not believe Mbada's claim that it did not have money to pay them.
"I know that there are diamonds still being produced and as a matter of fact I know that planes come on a weekly basis to collect the gems," – said Zviripi.
Despite the country's economic troubles Mbada Diamonds has, over the years, been associated with lavish spending, claims New Zimbabwe.
There have also been reports that most of the diamonds left at Marange, which allegedly holds 25% of the world's gem deposits, are Kimberlite and require expensive machinery to extract. Most of the diamond producing companies licenced by the government to exploit the area are only equipped to pick up the alluvial gems.
