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Kimberley Process reaches its sink or swim moment

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Tough ask: KP delegates during their meeting in Kasane in 2022. Proposals for a debate on Russia and reforms were shot down through a veto PIC: KPCS COM

The World Diamond Council issued its strongest warning yet that the anti-blood diamonds group, the Kimberley Process, desperately needs reform. As the 86 member states gather in Dubai, besides synthetics on their mind, survival is taking centre stage, writes MBONGENI MGUNI

Forget, for a moment, the argument that natural diamonds are dead. Botswana exported P28.5 billion worth of the stones in the first seven months of this year, compared to about P25 billion over the same period last year.

Now, that’s due to a number of interlinked and causal factors, but the numbers are the numbers.

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