Introduction

Roman Grynberg and Letsema Mbayi

A chapter in The Global Diamond Industry, 2015, pp 1-7 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In Kimberley, the town where the diamond rush of the late 1800s took place and led to the founding of DeBeers (which also gave its name to the Kimberly Process), a group of young girls often find themselves having to sing their school song, under the close scrutiny of their stern music teacher. The first verse of the school song, sang by rows of lessthan-eager young girls wearing horrid blazers with dark green and black stripes, goes as follows:

Keywords: Resource Curse; Diamond Mining; Northern Cape Province; Lower Labour Productivity; Rough Diamond (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137537614_1

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