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She has not been able to work since March of last year after her job at the Johannesburg airport was cut because of the pandemic.

The government’s claim that the discovery was actually quartz was met with suspicion. Molefi, who had made the trip to KwaHlathi from Johannesburg, said she would consult gemologists on her own to find out whether the stones she unearthed were indeed diamonds. When rumors of a diamond find hit social media, thousands of jobless South Africans rushed to a sleepy village. Pillay said, and officials would seek to make sure the community benefits if there are profits to be made. He took a couple of extra vigorous whacks into the sides of the shallow crater he had dug on the backside of a hillside, earlier than scooping up a handful of unfastened dust and shaking it in quest of the. South Africa Dispatch A Diamond Rush in South Africa, Born of Desperation and Distrust When rumors of a diamond find hit social media, thousands of jobless South Africans rushed to. “It’s not an unreasonable concern given how things have happened in the past,” he said.Ī geological study is underway to determine the commercial value of the quartz, Mr. KWAHLATHI, South Africa Sbusiso Molefe stretched the pickax excessive above his head and hacked into the clumpy black dust round his ft. When rumors of a diamond find hit social media, thousands of jobless South Africans rushed to a sleepy village. That sentiment did not surprise Ravi Pillay, an executive in the provincial government in charge of economic development. “They’re spreading fake news that this is not a diamond, because they don’t want people to go and dig the diamonds there.” Quartz and shattered dreams: South Africa 'diamond' rush is a bust Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa As word spread that there were diamonds to be found beneath the soil in a tiny, rural. Khazi said when reached by phone after the announcement.