Botswana president reveals world's second largest diamond

The Manila Times

Botswana president reveals world's second largest diamond   Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi shows reporters a massive 2,492-carat diamond -- the second largest in the world -- that was discovered in the north east of the country by a Canadian mining company.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #diamond

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00:00So this is the 2,492 carats stone.

00:13God is good.

00:15He's awesome.

00:17Change, change, change, change, change.

00:19Yes.

00:21Your Excellency, you can see this is the top.

00:24But there's some very clear spots.

00:27It's very, it's very peaky in the corner.

00:30You can see there's a rainbow there.

00:32So when the rainbow shows, there's been...

00:34I can, and I can see roads being built.

00:37Yes.

00:39You can see hospitals.

00:41Hospitals and everything else.

00:44Kids going to school.

00:46Yes, because it's extremely...

00:48The bigger one is, it's got a diamond.

00:50Yeah.

00:52No, you must show your teeth.

00:54So it doesn't look...

00:56Deputy Pierce, come.

00:58You mind this resource.

01:00Thanks.

01:02We've used a lot of the mineral wealth

01:04to create a lot of opportunities for Botswana.

01:06Right from schooling

01:08to employment creation

01:10to boosting of the economy

01:12through industrialization.

01:15Through the process of these diamond sales,

01:19it boosts economic activity.

01:21Boosting of the economic activity

01:23means a lot more people can then be involved

01:25and then there'll be circulation around.

01:27Which then impacts not just a few people,

01:30but a lot more.

01:32Because now all the other programs

01:34that the government has set out

01:36will actually reach a lot more people in Botswana.

01:39I mean, this is history in the making.

01:41This is 2,492 carats worth of diamonds

01:43that have been produced in Mother Earth.

01:45You're never going to get that.

01:47And the sentiments around it is that

01:49when we unearth the stone here or this diamond,

01:51there's beneficiation there coming through.

01:53Botswana benefits from these stones.

01:55None of us here can say we haven't benefited

01:57from the Botswana diamond.

01:59So for me, when I talk about 2,492 carats,

02:02I'm thinking of empowering Botswana,

02:04provenance, making sure that people understand

02:07what our diamonds actually do for Botswana.

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