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Lab-grown diamonds robbing southern Africa of riches

  • Botswana, which is 70 percent desert, was lifted from poverty by the discovery of diamonds in the 1960s
  • But the average price of natural diamond is now falling as consumers turn to cheaper diamonds created in China and India
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Letsile Tebogo says athletics saved him from life of crime

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The biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana — a whopping 2,492 carats

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