When Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company started its mining operations in Marange under controversial circumstances, communities were promised better lives and compensation for being displaced, including irrigation projects. “We were promised irrigation projects and these companies should fulfil that so that people are able to grow their own crops and sell the surplus to nearby city,” he said “We were promised compensation and title deeds to our new houses by the diamond companies; all these promises never materialised. Many people are now abandoning their homes here at ARDA Transau,” said Masvaure, who chairs the ARDA Transau Relocation Development Trust. Some of the houses at ARDA Transau were poorly built and gapping cracks could be seen tearing through the bright yellow painted walls. The business & human rights resource centre invited ZCDC to respond to these allegations, they did not respond.