Letter From Lesotho: Racism in the Diamond Mine
Desperate for work, the Basotho miners of the sovereign kingdom of Lesotho grudgingly accept the daily degradations of life among the white men.
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Are Conflict Diamonds Rigging Today’s Zimbabwe Elections?
Global Witness, the London-based resource watchdog, thinks so.
An X-Ray a Day Keeps Diamond Smuggling at Bay
One mine in 1919 South Africa had a foolproof way to see whether its miners were smuggling out raw diamonds: it gave them a radiation-laden scan at the end of every shift.