Botswana kupiga mnada almasi ya thamani ya dola bilioni sita

[Ng'wanangwa]

Botswana, the world's largest diamond producer, has started to auction its own diamonds for the first time instead of selling them in Europe.

The auction is by the government-owned Okavango Diamond Company.

Later in the year, diamond giant De Beers, which owns the country's main mining firm with the government, will also move its sales to Gaborone.

Botswana has long campaigned for its diamonds to be processed, sorted, marketed and sold from the country.

Last year, De Beers moved its rough stone sorting operation, which had been based in London for nearly 80 years, to Botswana.

'Big-scale move'

The BBC's Rob Young in the capital, Gaborone, says about a dozen diamond buyers from around the world are in the city for the auction, which lasts for two weeks as they inspect the diamonds first and then bid for them in several rounds.

The government hopes diamond sales operations will bring more value-added jobs to the diamond sector, including clerical and jewellery-making work, our reporter says.

Its long-term plan is to set up a diamond hub similar to Antwerp and Tel Aviv that will continue once the diamond mines close, he says.

When De Beers relocates its sales operation later in the year, it will be selling about $6bn (£4bn) worth of diamonds a year in Gaborone.

Philippe Mellier, chief executive of De Beers, told the BBC that moving diamond sales was part of a deal agreed with the government of Botswana. Together they own Debswana, the country's main mining company.

It would turn Botswana into a major diamond hub, as it was already the biggest centre for diamond production, Mr Mellier said.

"It's a global movement of big scale for the diamond business," he told the BBC's Newsday programme.

"If you migrate $500m-$600m per month of sales of diamonds - that's a big move and at the scale of Botswana that's a very big move and certainly a move of significant scale for southern Africa."

Source: BBC

 

[Sijali]

Enough to pay Tanzzania's entire foreign debt! Mi najiuliza, hivi serikali ya Tanzania ina 'akiba' ya madini yake? Yaani hivi serikali inahodhi kiasi Fulani cha dhahabu, almasi, Tanzanite etc. au ni kuwa mali yote inachukuliwa na wageni? By the way, lile tofali la dhahabu alilopewa Nkapa liko wapi? Nchi hizi za kidikteta, rais anawezaje kuzawadiwa tofali la dhahabu na akalitia kibindoni? Hata Marekani, nchi tajiri mara 200 ya Tanzania, zawadi yeyote anayopewa rais ni mali ya taifa, labda iwe kama kalamu hivi!

 

[Kamaka]

Tofali lipo nantumbo kama sikosei au sauzi kwenye hoteli yake....

 

[ntamaholo]

mnada unafanyika Gaborone na siyo ughaibuni. watawala wa Tanzania mnaweza kujifunza kitu hapo maana nyie mwaona sifa kuuza rasilimali za nchi kwenye masoko ya Ulaya na Marekani. Source: BBC WORLD

Ng'wanangwa kitambo sana mkuu

 

[Babuu Rogger]

Tz shamba la bibi....

 

[hazole1]

Watu wanabahati kweli alipewa tofari la dhahabu

 

[Menyainganyi]

Endeleeni kuchagua ccm mtakumbana na machungu kuliko haya...., labda mwisho tutaenda kuangalia twiga UAE....

 

[kizaizai]

Tanzania utaambiwa sio ya serikali, Nimali ya Mwekezaji alikuwa anadaiwa kodi ameshalipa. Then mlango wanyuma wanagawana. Kesho viongozi majukwaani, tuombee amani ya TZ izidi na tudumishe umoja, huku wanacheua madolari.

 

[Bavaria]

Wakazi wa Botswana ni sawa na wakazi wa Dar. Kwa hiyo pesa wanaweza kusomesha wanafunzi wote wa Botswana kuanzia elimu ya awali hadi PHD kwa miaka mitano mfululizoo. Au wanaweza kuwapa wabotswana wote huduma za afya bure kwa miaka mitano mfululizo.

 

[Bavaria]

Watanzania endeleeni kuchagua CCM. Maendeleo mtaenda kuyaona kwa jirani.

 

[nyumba kubwa]

Kinachomata ni imeuziwa wapi au ela kachukua nani?