Is A New Era Ahead of De Beers in Africa?

[Ayinde]

Only a week after Israeli diamantaire Lev Leviev grabbed headlines when he said he is giving African countries what they want – namely a bigger share of the diamond pipeline – Botswana is now singing the same tune as it carries out crucial negotiations with De Beers.

In a potshot at De Beers last week, during a seminar on rough diamonds in Israel, Leviev told a packed hall that he did not understand why producing countries were told they couldn’t sort or polish diamonds. Their own diamonds.

According to Leviev, one of the secrets of his success is that he stuck by his suppliers through hard times and helped them achieve their goals, as they expressed them to him. The Angolan Minister of Resources agreed with him during the seminar, as did the Namibian Prime Minister during the opening of Leviev’s polishing plant in the country earlier this month.

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Instead of focusing research on diamonds  and De Beers, consider finding out about Oppenheimer and stratgic metals and minerals.  The news about  resource exploitation in Africa is often led in the direction of diamonds.  Magnesium  Chromium and Titanium are not glamerous subjects of intrigue and smuggling with exotic craftsmen wiling away the hours in Antwerp and Haifa.  

You won't make alot of freinds in the ANC hierarchy by looking into this.
That this issue never appears on this page, even though I have suggested it numerous times is worrisome.  The entire world techncracy establishment is dependent on African raw materials, particularly aerospace - you know.....AEROSPACE INDUSTRY - the  people bringing you cruise missles, f-16 fighter jets, attack helicopters, B52's,, space weapons, indiscriminate bombings of civilian targets, etc. Oh, not to mention nuclear weapons industry.

My tax money is going  to line the pockets of the new and approved establishment of Oppenheimer et al, to produce these things......the current government of South Africa and its new elite. The whole thing stinks.  Mugabe also brags that the sell off of his country's mineral wealth is what is keeping his regime standing, despite "Beast Blair" and the rest.  Not to argue with land reform, but sloganeering "great leaders" are not going to 'lift" anyone out of subjugation and misery, as obviously brilliant as Mugabe is.  And yes, white Rhodesians must now sleep in the bed they have made.  Still , there is a much larger picture.

Has anyone on this site even questioned Mugabe's connection to the Jesuits and the Catholic Church?  That's right, that Travelling Midevil Horror Show with the man in the funny hat.  Guess what,  Mugabe is part of an institution that has the official position that condom use does not protect against AIDS and all African Catholics are therefore ordered not to wear condoms to prevent STD infection.  Now, how many deaths will this result in, WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE JESUIT ELITES AND THEIR MINIONS THAT THIS WILL BE THE RESULT? Maybe they are also lining up new child sex slave victims in Africa for their fun and games - this game is pretty well up in Babylon USA, fresh pastures await.  Desmond Tutu?  One has to be brave and go where the evidence leads, no matter how disturbing to one's preconceived sensabilities.

Soon enough, Africa is going to be a staging ground for this aerospace technology and its production.  Some people who are Africans are going to become very rich from it.  Then, get ready for the results..  KABOOM!

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