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The Mafuta is a diamond-mining ship owned and operated by De Beers in the western coast of South Africa. [11] Built in 1983 as Dock Express 20 for Dock Express Shipping (later Dockwise), the semisubmersible, multirole, heavy-lift vessel was converted to the world's largest cable layer in 1993. [9]
Sold to Charles Bates in December 1987 and laid up as a static museum ship in Hout Bay until late 1990s. Sold to Gary van der Merwe and converted to yacht and renamed 'Madiba' then converted to diving support vessel and chartered to De Beers as survey vessel off the Namibian coast. Name changed to Golden Firefly. Broken up in Cape Town ...
De Beers Diamond Jewellers (DBDJ) was established in 2001 as a 50:50 joint venture between The De Beers Group of Companies and LVMH, the French luxury goods company. [81] The first De Beers boutique opened in 2002 on London's Old Bond Street as the brand's flagship store. Since then, stores have opened in various cities around the world.
Rhodes was a mining magnate, founder of the monopolistic De Beers diamond company, influential politician and later prime minister (1890 to 1896) of the British Cape Colony, today a part of the state of South Africa.
De Beers tried its hand at growing a lab-grown diamond jewelry business for six years before ditching it earlier this year. But a segment of that failed attempt has flourished—and it has nothing ...
The 2022 World Bank Container Port Performance Index ranked Cape Town 344th out of the 348 ports surveyed. [2] Shipping company Maersk announced that they would be bypassing the Port of Cape Town from December 2023 due to reliability and transit time concerns. [3] [4] In the 2023 report, the port slipped to bottom of the 405 ports surveyed. [5]
Prior to the onset of the Second Boer War, Kimberley was the second-biggest city in the Cape Colony, [3] and vibrant and prosperous as the centre of diamond mining operations of the De Beers Mining Company, who supplied 90% of the world's diamonds. [4] The town had a population of 40,000, of which 25,000 were white. [5]
British businessmen Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato made their fortunes in Kimberley, and Rhodes established the De Beers diamond company in the early days of the mining town. On 2 September 1882, Kimberley was the first city in the Southern Hemisphere and the second in the world after Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, in the United States to ...