Botswana could never disrupt diamond trade - Mogae

Botswana wants to be a diamond cutting-and-polishing centre than Antwerp, Tel-Aviv and Mumbai, the President Festus Mogae has said in an interview.

Mogae said that for the first time, diamond cutting and diamond polishing were now taking place in Botswana.

He said that a total of 16 cutting-and-polishing houses had been licensed and six of them were already operational. The remaining ten would be operational in the next three years.
That is a very important and ambitious project. We aim to be a diamond centre no less than, and comparable to, Antwerp, Tel-Aviv and Mumbai, he said.

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