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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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De Beers also submits that any repeal or dilution of the provisions of the existing legislation relating to the control and regulation of diamond mining and trading in South Africa would seriously damage individuals, their communities and the environment as well as threatening an important natural resource.
In submission 26 De Beers submits that the discretionary power of the Diamond Board relating to the issuing of licences is framed unreasonably wide and in subjective terms.
De Beers adds that the requirements of the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) should be borne in mind when analysing the Section 59 agreement, and export duty currently levied on unpolished diamonds.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Recently De Beers began encouraging new and emerging players in the diamond marketplace at the raw materials level to develop their own Brands and marketing programs to vie for the attention of consumers, all with the goal of lifting diamonds out of the commodity market by creating a consumer market where Brands and Brand Awareness matters.
De Beers predicts (submission 22) that the amount of diamonds that can be cut economically may decline by the year 2010, thus the local industry may increasingly have to compete for resources on merit with other countries.
De Beers was bought out earlier this year for $19-billion by a consortium, DB Investments, led by mining conglomerate Anglo American and South Africa’s Oppenheimer family.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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De Beers can only leverage its own Branding and Marketing activities by driving the creation of a multi-player non-commodity marketplace around diamonds per se.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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De Beers is a South African company and our loyalty must be with De Beers in the section 59 context.
De Beers is of the opinion that De Beers pays a disproportionate burden of financing the Diamond Board.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited purchased and restored the Observatory and the Priest's House and donated them to the Museum.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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De Beer's point is that focussing on the acquiring of adapted characteristics, noting whether the environment eventually changes the genes by use or disuse or direct environmental influence, is irrelevant.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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De Beers Workshops commenced manufacturing artillery ammunn- tion on 16 November, 1899, to augment the inadequate supply stockpiled in the town prior to war breaking out.
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