De Beers sightholders: �whine and dine�...
Friday, February 28, 2014
For the first time in decades, De Beers’ new controlling shareholder has made a policy decision to report natural rough and industrial synthetics sales in one figure. In contrast, the $6.1 billion figure from 2012 listed the company’s industrial synthetic sales (through Element 6), which, that year, amounted to $600 million, as part of a sales breakdown.
Figures released by the country’s electoral management body have shown that a total of 1, 037, 684 people have registered to vote.However, eligible voters could be discouraged by events leading to the voting day like poor execution of advance voting amid talks that the elections could be unfair.There have also been threats by certain opposition politicians that shall the elections not be free and fair, they will halt them.Despite these...