diamond industry

Competition in diamond market chips away at De Beers

BusinessRoman Grynberg | 2016-03-24 00:00:00

COMMENT

BusinessRoman Grynberg | 2015-11-06 00:00:00

For the past year Botswana, Namibia and South Africa have seen their dream to cut and polish their own diamonds evaporate like a mirage on a...

Diamonds aren't Sacu's best friend

BusinessRoman Grynberg | 2015-09-18 00:00:00

COMMENT

'Flawless' SA diamond sells for $22m

BusinessReuters | 2015-04-22 12:36:00

An anonymous buyer purchased the perfect classic emerald-cut diamond, which is about the size of a walnut and was discovered by De Beers in...

Botswana diamond workers bleed

Africa (Business)Roman Grynberg | 2015-02-20 00:00:00

ANALYSIS

Africa's diamantaires in the rough

BusinessRoman Grynberg | 2014-12-12 00:00:00

The wages of diamond cutters in Botswana and India are not dissimilar, yet in India there are 800 000 cutters and in Botswana only 3 750....

SA diamonds languish in the rough

BusinessChantelle Benjamin | 2013-06-14 00:00:00

As South Africa's contributions to the world's diamond trove continue to dwindle it is impossible not to contrast its fortunes with those...

Oppenheimers leave the diamond race with $5bn sale

BusinessStaff Reporter | 2011-11-04 16:00:00

South Africa's Oppenheimer dynasty ended on Friday, a century in the diamond business which shaped the region, selling their 40% of De Beers to...

Battle is on for Zim gems

AfricaJason Moyo | 2010-11-12 12:34:00

As big Indian and Chinese money vie with increasing intensity for access to Zimbabwe's resources, wealthy members of the Zimbabwean elite are...

Zim defiant about diamond export

NationalJason Moyo | 2010-06-25 06:00:00

Zimbabwe is set to defy Western opinion and sell off its billion-dollar diamond stockpile just as the true scale of the country's vast diamond...

Angola's diamond sector regaining lustre

AfricaStaff Reporter | 2009-04-29 12:39:00

Angola's diamond sector is slowly recovering but gem prices still need to rise by around 15% this year to enable companies reinvest in it, the head...

Downturn, debt dull diamond sector sparkle

BusinessPhilip Blenkinsop | 2009-03-09 08:17:00

It wouldn't be fitting to mount a barrage of "sale" and "special offer" signs in the windows of jewellers crowded into Antwerp's diamond square...

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