De Beers partners with govt to empower youth in diamond sector

Diamond miner and marketer De Beers, along with government and other industry stakeholders, last week unveiled an enterprise development project for diamond beneficiators. De Beers Sightholder Sales South Africa sales head Peter Moeti introduced the five historically disadvantaged South African- (HDSA-) owned diamond cutting and polishing companies that had been selected to participate in the three-year programme, namely Thoko's Diamonds, African Diamonds, Nungu Diamonds, Kwame Diamonds and Molefi Letsiki Diamond Holdings.