Botswana’s diamond sector has gone ex growth – economist

Botswana’s diamond sector is not going to disappear but it is also not going to grow. Increasingly, Botswana is a services driven economy, with the real growth coming from the services sector, Econsult MD Keith Jefferis told the Botswana Resource Sector Conference on Monday. The era of Botswana being a mining driven economy had ended and foreign direct investment (FDI) into Botswana had collapsed.