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No South African Solution (Yet) in the Making

After last month's DTC Sight in South Africa, we noted the both ridiculous and amazing situation in which De Beers had been in violation of sections 52 and 20A of the Diamond Amendment Act. The company had violated these sections of the Act by showing Sight goods to foreign Sightholders who were not legally "authorized representatives" of their own local Sightholding entities. Sightholders, we wrote, could have been arrested - as could have some of De Beers' representatives.  

Investment Insights - A rough diamond story

The Diamond Trading Company (DTC), the marketing arm of De Beers, the world's biggest miner and marketer of rough diamonds by value, announced further price increases this week, for a 16% cumulative increase since the start of the year. But just as rough diamond prices have continued to rise, so investors have continued selling down listed diamonds stocks.