DTC Botswana board holds first meeting in Gaborone

DTC Botswana, which is an equal partnership company with seats shared equally between the Government of Botswana and De Beers, is scheduled to start operations next year, valuing  in excess of 36 million carats per annum.

Its core business will be the sorting ,valuing, marketing  and selling of all Debswana production, which constitutes 22 percent of the world's diamond output and it is expected that by the end of the decade , over US$550 million of rough diamonds will be  sold annually for manufacturing in Botswana.