Kimberley – Hundreds of men have set up their own diamond “mine” next to the road to Boshof after they were apparently kicked out of a neighbouring De Beers mining site just outside the city.

The men on Thursday claimed that they had been “legally” digging for diamonds at the De Beers site, between Samaria Road and the Kimberley Caravan Park, for more than two years, until a dispute over payment closed the site leaving them without any source of income and forcing them to embark on illegal activities outside the site.
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