Lesedi La Rona Discoverer, Mathaba Deserves Huge Reward

This week the BBC carried a very interesting news item, about the impeccable talent of a Motswana diamond miner, a certain Tiroyaone Mathaba, who found the record-setting diamond, Lesedi La Rona, which is the size of a tennis ball, and said to be worth over P700 million.

It has surfaced that the youthful Motswana had also recovered an amazing 239-karat diamond two years earlier in the same spot at the Karowe mine. Management of Karowe mine has quashed suggestions that the young man deserves a big reward from Karowe for such a find. The argument of the mine management is that the huge profits realised from the sale of Mathaba’s find would rather be spread across the entire team, as bonus.

Karowe needs to wake up to reality and realise they have a rare diamond find in Mathaba whose special, unique eye for rare gems have nicked them not one, but two gems of special quality.

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