Work together or perish together, Diamond Indaba hears

The South African diamond beneficiation industry was confronted with the choice of either working together in a government, labour and business partnership or perishing together as failures, the country’s first Diamond Indaba heard here on Tuesday. Attended by the who’s who of local diamond mining and diamond beneficiation, the indaba heard that it was imperative for the industry to turn its current vicious circle of destruction into a virtuous circle of cooperation, innovation and development that would save the last 200 participants from the same failed fate suffered by more than 4 300 others who had been plunged out of the sector by government red tape and wrong legislative choices. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)