Afrimond to fill diamond skills gap

Speaking at a diamond beneficiation workshop recently, the Managing Director of Afrimond, Todd Majaye, said these services were essential to Botswana and many other African countries. The institute was established in South Africa in 2000 in response to diamond and mineral producing African countries' knowledge and skills needs.

With the establishment of diamond cutting and polishing factories and the Diamond Innovation Hub, Botswana was now at an advanced stage of diamond production. Training by Afrimond would therefore increase competitiveness in the global economic arena and create employment for Batswana, reducing poverty, ignorance and other social ills.