Varda Shine, Managing Director of the Diamond Trading Company, speaks to the Foreign Press Association on sustainable partnerships in Africa.
In the next few minutes I hope to share with you why De Beers believes that business in Africa has an important part to play in driving sustainable growth . In particular, I will be highlighting our programme designed to grow viable (i.e. non-mining) diamond industries in that part of the sub-continent. What gives us confidence that business can drive sustainable development is simply this: in the countries where we operate in Africa, natural resources have driven and continue to drive sustainable national development...