{"id":190595,"date":"2025-02-05T05:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-de-beers-botswana-clinch-diamond-sales-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T05:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:01:49","slug":"botswana-de-beers-botswana-clinch-diamond-sales-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-de-beers-botswana-clinch-diamond-sales-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: De Beers, Botswana Clinch Diamond Sales Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The Government of the Republic of Botswana (&#8220;GRB&#8221;) and De Beers Group (&#8220;De Beers&#8221;) are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of negotiations focused on establishing a new sales agreement for Debswana&#8217;s rough diamond production, as well as extending Debswana&#8217;s mining licences beyond 2029. This development is in alignment with the Heads of Terms agreed on September 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Debswana, a 50:50 joint venture between the GRB and De Beers, operates several leading diamond mines in Botswana:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502040058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of the Republic of Botswana (&#8220;GRB&#8221;) and De Beers Group (&#8220;De Beers&#8221;) are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of negotiations focused on establishing a new sales agreement for Debswana&#8217;s rough diamond production, as well as extending Debswana&#8217;s mining licences beyond 2029. This development is in alignment with the Heads of Terms agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,10877,4718,2462,10590,7012,7465,257,5105,254],"class_list":["post-190595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beers","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-clinch","tag-deal","tag-diamond","tag-news","tag-sales","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}