tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21641683014461057952011-04-21T14:59:50.080-07:00takomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152331054406455013noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164168301446105795.post-55321377739187310492007-08-29T05:37:00.000-07:002007-08-29T05:58:38.501-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Xhv4e40J1yo/RtVsrCdLvaI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xziojTbSqi4/s1600-h/uncuts.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104105239343775138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Xhv4e40J1yo/RtVsrCdLvaI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xziojTbSqi4/s400/uncuts.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xhv4e40J1yo/RtVsjidLvZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/bE9n6QQNsn8/s1600-h/blackback.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104105110494756242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xhv4e40J1yo/RtVsjidLvZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/bE9n6QQNsn8/s400/blackback.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">South African Women are not only known for their strength and courage but also for their resourcefulness. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />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. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Takoma Diamonds, headed by Nokuthula Mthembu is involved in management and marketing in the diamond industry.</span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div><br />In South Africa, poverty and lack of skills and employment are two of the most critical challenges. </div><div></div><div>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:<br /></div><ul><li>Teach the identification and evaluation of rough diamonds</li><br /><br /><li>Rough diamond marking</li><br /><br /><li>Evaluation of polished diamonds</li><br /><br /><li>A cutting and polishing element will be added soon</span>.</li></ul></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2164168301446105795-5532137773918731049?l=takomadiamondsa.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>takomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152331054406455013noreply@blogger.com0