Moupo chews Mogae speech

"For 30 years the government allowed itself to be hoodwinked by De Beers into believing that this country is not suited to any diamond processing leading to huge loss of income, loss of opportunity to develop diamond processing skills and compete in the global market and it undermined our country's capacity to create jobs for its people. 

"It cannot be the same company which has effectively sabotaged our industrialisation process which can be relied upon to drive the beneficiation process," he argued.