We named a portion of the diamond fields zamu ramai Mujuru (Mrs. Joyce Mujuru’s breast) because on several nights trucks would go there, and we were told by police that the portion belongs to the vice-president, Mrs. Mujuru. That portion of land is heavily guarded both by police and by a private security company, which is owned by another senior ZANU-PF official.152 Local and international media have reported on the alleged involvement of Zimbabwe’s VicePresident and senior ZANU-PF member Mrs. Mujuru in Marange diamond mining and smuggling, including on ownership of a claim in the diamond fields popularly known as churu chamai Mujuru (Mrs. Mujuru’s anthill).153 International media have also reported on alleged attempts by Mrs. Mujuru’s Spain-based daughter to sell uncertified gold and diamonds on the international market. The origin of the diamonds in question has never been publicly revealed.154 As a result of internal conflicts within ZANU-PF and infighting over the control of diamonds, some senior ZANU-PF officials have been arrested in connection with diamonds smuggling. For example, a ZANU-PF provincial spokesperson for Harare and senior official within a government ministry, William Nhara, was arrested at the Harare airport on March 1, 2007, together with a Lebanese woman, and was charged with attempted bribery and attempting to smuggle suspected Marange diamonds out of Zimbabwe. The two had in their possession diamonds weighing a total of 10,700 carats. The Lebanese woman, Ms. Carole Georges El Martni, was convicted of possession and attempting to smuggle diamonds and was fined US$84,000 in September 2007. Nhara died while on remand awaiting trial.155 In February 2007 police arrested Mthulisi Dube, the son of a director of a Zimbabwe military company, Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), for possession of 1,164 pieces of Marange 152 Human Rights Watch interview with local miners J.M., D.Z., H.N., P.M., and H.C., Marange, February 21, 2009. 153 See Robyn Dixon, “Zimbabwe’s deadly diamond fever,” Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/04/world/fg-diamonds4 (accessed May 31, 2009). 154 Catherine Philip and Graham Keeley, “Zimbabwe’s vice president foiled in 3,600 kg gold deal,” The Times (UK), February 2, 2009. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5796426.ece (accessed April 26, 2009). See also Grant Ferret, “Zimbabwe elite seeks to evade sanctions,” BBC News, February 24, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7907278.stm (accessed April 26, 2009). 155 “Principal Director William Nhara dies,” The Herald (Zimbabwe), May 29, 2007. Diamonds in the Rough 48