The Sol Plaatje Municipality, centered around the city of Kimberley, was established following the restructuring of local government in South Africa in December 2000. The “City of Diamonds ...

Confronting its Limitations, Failures and the Broken Promise of a ‘Year of Delivery’ The Kimberley Process ... which are often associated with diamond mining. This would align the KP’s ...

The Big Hole in Kimberley is about 215 meters deep, with 40 meters now filled with water. Once a bustling diamond mine, it is ...

Botswana Diamonds has been granted a mining permit for its Thorny River project. The company has undertaken extensive geophysics, drilling and bulk sampling along the Thorny River dyke system.

An abandoned town in Namibia was once home to the world’s richest diamond mine and is ... In 1915, South African troops took control of German South West Africa, and the railway was destroyed.

Trek Metals is on the hunt for a deposit of major scale at Christmas Creek in the Kimberley, not far south of Halls Creek.

Experts have welcomed the signing of a long-delayed rough diamond sales agreement between Botswana and South African mining giant De ... diamonds of Botswana." The Kimberley Process Civil Society ...

It’s an incongruous name for a wilderness, “the Karoo.” The nursery-like sound belies the harshness of a vast, arid ...

Passengers are whisked across the African continent, travelling through South Africa ... These include tours of Kimberley's Diamond Mine Museum, the Madikwe Game Reserve bordering Botswana ...