Botswana: Diamond Exports Plunge 90 Percent


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Botswana:   Job Losses Show 'Diamonds are Not Forever'
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
23 February 2009

"The situation is now very bad, very bad for workers. It is no longer about the workers alone, it is about the government, the companies, everyone. We need to talk. Dialogue is the only solution."

Botswana:   Diamond Exports Plunge 90 Percent
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
20 February 2009

Diamond exports plunged by close to 90 percent in the four months between August and November 2008 as the global recession hit demand for luxury goods, figures availed by the Central Statistics Office ...

Botswana:   Gaolathe to Shrink 2009 Budget
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
19 February 2009

Before the ink has dried on the budget proposals made two weeks ago, Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Baledzi Gaolathe yesterday announced in Parliament that he is working towards ...

Botswana:   DTC Sightholder Choked By Debt, Loses Diamonds
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
13 February 2009

The turmoil in the diamond industry caused by collapsing demand and prices has left the future of one of DTC Sightholders DDA of Botswana, hanging in the balance.


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