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Helping Cynthia plant the seeds of greatness through our women entrepreneurs development programme

19 May 2022,

Five years ago, Cynthia Mokgobu started a tiny farming operation in her backyard in the Limpopo village of Bochum, South Africa. Today, she’s supplying vegetables to markets as far afield as the neighboring province Gauteng and is well on her way to realising her dream of becoming a fully-fledged potato farmer and ensuring food security for her entire village.

The GemFair Way 2021 – creating scalable solutions to support the livelihoods of artisanal miners

14 Jan 2022, Steve Allan

Despite the pandemic, 2021 proved to be a strong year for GemFair. We furthered efforts to support our members and their communities in dealing with the impacts of the pandemic and continued to scale the programme and support the delivery of De Beers Group’s Building Forever sustainability goals.

Seven key elements for building a corporate innovation system – reflections on the first two years of De Beers Group IGNITE™

12 Apr 2021, Neil Ventura

While IGNITE is still in its early stages, by outlining these seven key elements of our corporate innovation system and how they work together, I hope to be able to share a useful blueprint that can be built upon and improved by others who may also be embarking on an innovation journey, or navigating that journey throughout the course of the pandemic.

Shifting focus to support vulnerable communities during a global pandemic: it’s the GemFair Way

03 Dec 2020, Feriel Zerouki

As we entered 2020 – our third year of operations for GemFair – there was a strong sense of expectation and excitement within the GemFair team. We were looking forward to building on the momentum we’d established in 2019 by continuing to extend GemFair’s reach and impact throughout the artisanal and small-scale diamond mining (ASM) sector in Sierra Leone.

A Focus on Pride

30 Jun 2020, Ann Cormack

This month, the world has had a truly positive milestone to mark: 50 years of Pride celebrations.

Innovation in Turbulent Times

19 Jun 2020, Neil Ventura

When we were all celebrating the arrival of 2020 some six months ago, few of us would have envisaged spending so much of the first half of the year in lockdown and working from home.