{"id":3938,"date":"2014-07-11T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:57:32","slug":"namibia-to-emulate-botswana-trade-in-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-to-emulate-botswana-trade-in-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia to emulate Botswana trade in diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is looking to emulate Botswana\u2019s international trade in diamonds by selling a portion of the minerals mined in the country by Namdeb Diamond Corporation from next year.This will come into effect, pending the establishment of a company that will directly sell the precious stones, Mines and Energy Minister Isak Katali was quoted as saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since last year, the government has been negotiating with De Beers to establish a solely state-owned diamonds marketing company,&#8221; Katali told The Southern Times.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said negotiations are expected to be completed by December 2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.starafrica.com\/news\/namibia-to-emulate-botswana-trade-in-diamonds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is looking to emulate Botswana\u2019s international trade in diamonds by selling a portion of the minerals mined in the country by Namdeb Diamond Corporation from next year.This will come into effect, pending the establishment of a company that will directly sell the precious stones, Mines and Energy Minister Isak Katali was quoted as saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461,723],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,2523,1166,2524,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas-international-trade-in-diamonds","tag-de-beers","tag-namdeb-diamond-corporation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}