{"id":14757,"date":"2025-11-07T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-angola-set-for-talks-as-both-seek-control-of-de-beers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:13","slug":"botswana-angola-set-for-talks-as-both-seek-control-of-de-beers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-angola-set-for-talks-as-both-seek-control-of-de-beers\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana, Angola set for talks as both seek control of De Beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Mining Ministers of Botswana and Angola are set to meet for talks in Botswana&#8217;s capital on Friday, as the two Southern African countries seek to take control of Anglo American diamond unit De Beers.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>Botswana, which currently owns 15% of De Beers and contributes 70% of its annual rough diamond production, considers the company a strategic national asset, despite a global diamond prices that has hurt its economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Angola initially sought a minority stake in De Beers but later submitted a bid for a majority stake, setting up a potential bidding war with its neighbour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Botswana&#8217;s Mine Minister Bogolo Joy Kenewendo and Angolan minister Diamantino Pedro Azevedo are expected to start their meeting, according to a programme shared with reporters by Botswana&#8217;s Mines Ministry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The programme did not say what the two ministers would discuss. After their talks they will pay a visit to Botswana&#8217;s President Duma Boko, before Azevedo flies to Angola.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anglo put De Beers, one of the world&#8217;s leading diamond companies, up for sale to focus on other parts of its business and values it at $4.9 billion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14758,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14757","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Mining Ministers of Botswana and Angola are set to meet for talks","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19281,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14757\/revisions\/19281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}