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close to the international airport OR Tambo. Considering the evolution of the country in the last ten years, with the Venetia mine being the only mine currently operational at world level in Limpopo and the absence of mining activity in the Northern Cape since 2015, De Beers is consolidating its remaining operations to be in the immediate vicinity and provide operational cost efficiency and contribute more effectively to the country’s national enrichment programme.
De Beers will move about 120 employees from its Sightholder Sales activity from Kimberley to a new facility in the Industrial Sky Park of Johannesburg, from January 2023. De Beers continues to be engaged with government parties interested in the future of its remaining assets in Kimberley, to ensure these are transferred and used for the benefit of the city and of the Northern Cape. Moses Madondo, CEO of De Beers Group Managed
di Luigi Cosma
Operation has stated:
“We are proud of our rich history in the Northern Cape, particularly in Kimberley, our native city. During this process, we have greatly committed ourselves to support the needs of our employees and their families.
We have also committed ourselves to our suppliers, business partners, organisations benefiting from corporate social investments and to provincial and local government. We are grateful to our trade union, the miners’ national union, which has been involved and supportive in the moving process. Our goal was to ensure that the move and commitment would be conducted transparently and responsibly, in line with our business values of “Show We Care” and “Pull Together”. A press release has reported that De Beers continues to offer support to its employees during this transition period offering three months of provisional lodging in Johannesburg,
as well as facilitating school placement of the children of employees at the Department of basic education of Gauteng.
De Beers will continue to work with the government, the key parties involved and community organisations to invest in the socio-economic development of the Northern Cape. For the next five years, the company will invest close to
43 million rand in the province through sustainable projects in basic and tertiary training, health assistance and business assistance and development, as can be read in the declaration.
IL CICLO DI VENDITE FINALE DELL'ANNO DI DE BEERS
De Beers ha venduto
410 milioni di dollari di diamanti grezzi nell’ultima sight del 2022. Il CEO Bruce Cleaver ha dichiarato che “La domanda dei nostri diamanti grezzi nel ciclo
di vendita finale del 2022 è
stata in linea con le aspettative, in vista della normale chiusura stagionale delle fabbriche di lucidatura nell'Africa meridionale durante il periodo natalizio, con i sightholder che hanno adottato un approccio prudente in un’ottica di approvvigionamento dopo il Natale e la riapertura del mercato cinese”.
THE FINAL SALES CYCLE OF THE YEAR FOR DE BEERS
De Beers sold 410 million dollars’ worth of rough diamonds during the last sight of 2022. The CEO Bruce Cleaver has declared that “The demand for our rough diamonds in the final sales cycle of 2022 was in line with expectations, in view of the normal seasonal closure of polishing factories in southern Africa during the Christmas period, with the sightholders who adopted
a cautious approach to procurement after Christmas and re-opening of the Chinese market”.
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