De Beers Retrenches As AfricanOperations Slowdown

In line with De Beers' decision to scale down, the company's African operations are starting to reduce production. In South Africa, Namibia and Botswana staff levels have been reduced, most on early holiday leave some of whom are not expected to return.

 

Botswana - the site of De Beers' most important mines - has been hit hard by the drop in rough diamond sales. At the last DTC Botswana Sight, many sightholders chose to not take the goods, leaving the company with unwanted diamonds.

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