Godwin Muti was one of the first people to descend on Chiadzwa when word spread that diamonds had been discovered in the arid and impoverished part of eastern Zimbabwe.
Mr Muti, 31, an unemployed father-of-two, was wallowing in poverty. He could hardly pay rent for a one-room house where he lodged in the old township of Sakubva in Mutare city.
When he heard about the diamonds, he joined thousands of others in the rush to Chiadzwa, then an unknown and desolate place.
A few months later his life had been transformed. More...
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