South African Women are not only known for their strength and courage but also for their resourcefulness.
For the majority of African women, poverty is still the order of the day, but has chosen a very unusual way to earn a living – a way she intend to use to lift other women out of the dark pit of grinding poverty.
Takoma Diamonds, headed by Nokuthula Mthembu is involved in management and marketing in the diamond industry.
In South Africa, poverty and lack of skills and employment are two of the most critical challenges.
Together with the husband and wife team, Busisiwe and Douglas Shandu and others, they are forming a consortium and rising to the challenge to establishing a factory and training school for the diamond business in Durban. These fired up entrepreneurs plan to:
- Teach the identification and evaluation of rough diamonds
- Rough diamond marking
- Evaluation of polished diamonds
- A cutting and polishing element will be added soon
