(Rapaport…February 20, 2003) The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) and De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer hosted a lunch on February 17, 2003 to celebrate the first Kimberley Process Certificates issued by South Africa, Namibia and Botswana for rough diamond exports. The exports were received by the DTC in London in January 2003.
Attendees included Lindiwe Mabuza, High Commissioner of South Africa; Monica Ndiliawike Nashandi, High Commissioner of Namibia; Roy Blackbeard, High Commissioner of Botswana and Clive Wright, Head of the U.K. Government Diamond Office.