De Beers Opens Diamond Route In South Africa

The Diamond Route is a partnership in environmental conservation and tourism and includes insight into South Africa's cultural, historical, and diamond-mining features. It links nine sites across South Africa and is made up of property owned by both De Beers and the Oppenheimer family. The empowerment partner is Ponahalo Holdings.

It stretches from the far west of the country at the Namaqualand diamond coast site next to the Namaqualand National Park, moves east to Kimberley, which includes the Kimberley big hole site, the Benfontein reserve, the Dronfield nature reserve and the Rooipoort nature reserve, and on to the Tswalu Kalahari reserve, then up to the Brenthurst Gardens in Johannesburg, and the Ezemvelo nature reserve near Pretoria, and finally up to the Venetia Limpopo Nature reserve near Musina.