{"id":50445,"date":"2026-11-09T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50445"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:00:40","slug":"botswana-will-double-de-beers-stake-to-30-as-part-of-anglo-stake-sale","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-will-double-de-beers-stake-to-30-as-part-of-anglo-stake-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana will double De Beers stake to 30% as part of Anglo stake sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Botswana&#8217;s government will increase its \u200bstake in diamond producer De Beers to \u200c30%, its president said on Monday, backing a bid by the Global Diamond Consortium group for the 85% \u200bstake put up for sale by Anglo American.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8220;Botswana&#8217;s \u200bshareholding in De Beers will double from the \u2060current 15%. Botswana will become the single \u200blargest shareholder in De Beers,&#8221; President Duma Boko \u200bsaid in a speech in parliament.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Botswana&#8217;s government will increase its \u200bstake in diamond producer De Beers to \u200c30%,\u00a0 Boko said on Monday, backing a bid by the Global Diamond Consortium group for the 85% \u200bstake put up for sale by Anglo American.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8220;Botswana&#8217;s \u200bshareholding in De Beers will double from the \u2060current 15%. Botswana will become the single \u200blargest shareholder in De Beers,&#8221; Boko \u200bsaid in a speech in parliament.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39175,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-50445","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Botswana President Duma Boko says shareholding in De Beers will double from the \u2060current 15%.","published_date":"","news_description":"Botswana President Duma Boko says shareholding in De Beers will double from the \u2060current 15%.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50445","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50448,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50445\/revisions\/50448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}