Armed with shovels, buckets and determination, entire families of fortune seekers have travelled from across South Africa to a small village in the country’s east in search of what they believe to be diamonds.
It started when a herdsman dug up a huge crystal-like stone in the small village of of KwaHlathi in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
However, geologists have not yet confirmed whether it is a precious diamond.
Al Jazeera’s Sara Khairat reports.
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Omg this is tooo sas
this will end crime ? 😂😂😂
I hope other countries will not exploit this country and it’s people for riches ,as they did for centuries
Some distant planets are literally made of diamonds. Imagine that! But the moment you bring tons back to earth, it’s value will drop like coal.
@Caring Sharing yeah but it would be more useful if it was cheaper ,as diamond as an element has a lot of amazing and useful properties that can be used readily by industries to make efficient product
@Caring Sharing common sense is if you flood a market you also inflate it that’s why you sell strategically to get as much profit as possible
It’s quartz – no value.
So how much diamonds are you hoarding?🤔🐱
14$ really 🤣🤣🤣
Its only 4 living , only rich get rich .
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Why do you laugh at innocent people’s misfortune?
Its quartz anyway
They do not look like diamonds to me, more like quartz. But I wish them the best. I’d
you can tell from there? 🙄🙄🙄
@Young Luo it’s not that hard to identify a diamond. And diamonds do not generally lie close to the surface. You have to dig deeper. So there. I wish for their sakes that these are indeed diamonds, and that the big exploitative corporations do not arm twist the government into allowing them to steal as they always do, but these aren’t diamonds.
@AJALAH UPFRONT. On the contrary, it is very hard to identify diamonds if you are not familiar with them in their raw form, hence the debate.
You are so right lady. That isn’t diamonds, nice if it would but then the military and the corrupt government would have blocked of the area right away and stolen it. 😩😢
@Hans Bjorkman yeah. I feel bad, if they were real, the poverty of these people would have been alleviated temporarily. Such is life.
They are going to steal the diamond the government criminals like ur good friend Elon Musk who was raised rich in south Africa as a apartheid he got his money stealing rocks too.
Let the people know: they are lab created now.
I wonder what it is.
quartz
Not diamonds
Africa has the god-gift !
Its all fun and games until america invades to bring “True Democracy”
Zionists love diamonds
What about China who’s already infiltrating??? You’re more worried about the American corporation than China who is literally killing it’s citizens and placing them in slave camps???
Oh please, we are civilized. We use remittances so absolutely no need to invade.
If u don’t like ur diamonds, feel free to ship it to me😹
Girls in America are about to go CRAZY for these mystery crystals.. lol
So mysterious, so rare, and in short supply. A high price shall be set and the fighting will ensue.
@Sc Moon so is ur mama
@Abu Gayth but I’m your dad
@Sc Moon how is that possible when im ur dad hahaha
@Abu Gayth tell my boo/your mum to wear that thang I like,i got something special planned for her and i🍾🍸🤣
The West will now be planning something big like sending cia to cause war.
I thing this is quartz, because if it was really diamond that government would have claimed
It is probably. Geologists have said so already. Very unlikely to be diamond. It’s just desperate people in desperate times. Very sad.
Quartz is everywhere, and it looks like quartz
What an idiot that herdsman was, If I had a field and found a gold nugget, last thing i’d be doing was telling anybody.
We pray for you this stone will be diamonds
Please open the link and see this village
Actually I know the place and our government wants to close this place,these are not quarts theser are real diamonds,our government wouldn’t want us to stop digging if this was not a diamond
come listen to sunnah narrations
Good job
If you believe your government you will died poor ….the land belong to citizens of south africa
Yall remember how Blood Diamond started?
Now European and NATO and America will invade them to bring democracy in their country
There is a way to stop all that of course, find the truth.
More like demoncracy.
Hahahah I don’t doubt the avarice of America but it’s not like this is the first diamond rich site in South Africa, there are quite a few😂maybe it’s clandestine democracy…
British took tons and tons with making big whole , recycle change aboriginals lifes
No the white man is coming for those diamonds
American democracy is on it’s way.
China is already there and it’s crazy how people think America is worse than China 🤦🏿♂️
@Jimmy Jump so the people we saw digging are Chinese??
@Jimmy Jump lol
Who is going to buy if you refuse other countries
Wars aren’t fought over diamonds anymore
I am happy for them as they have got some happiness best of luck for them.
Nice. Diamond in the sand.
All I got to say is keep the west out
What about the East??? I see plenty of China men marrying and impregnating African women to lay claim to the land.
@Jimmy Jump are we that poor??? I never see a south african dating Chinese,,,,
If those were really diamonds, the South African government and the De Beers Company would have clamped down hard on that site
Did you follow the story? it has been confirmed that those stones are diamonds and the citizens should return them
Don’t worry GOD is vindicating his African children so the de beers & all of the Gluttonous companies will dry up very soon! The Land belongs to the people! 😘
@Bala Music where you hear the confirmation that those are real diamonds?
@Mark John Pareja Im from South Africa. and it was reported by EW if im not mistaken
@Mark John Pareja are you disappointed ? lol
It’s funny..Aljazera remove my comment. i was talking about the reality of South Africans.. 😐😐😐..!
Can you rephrase what you said? Please.
What did you say sweety???
You probably commited thought crime
@C. MARTIN 😂😂. Even the reporter just said about that..but mine was removed
@Ja Prosper 😐 they will remove…
That’s amazing news for the people of South Africa especially those who are struggling🙏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Those aren’t real diamonds…
Sadly I think they’re quartz
Africa is the richest continent!
The richest continent with the poorest people…
It is quite clear reading the comments that people are not aware that South Africa is the country where the biggest diamond was discovered. We have Kimberly which was ravaged by the UK when they discovered diamonds here. It will be difficult to control the Zulu people. They won’t just be shut out from the land with diamonds that belonged to them
Very easy to test a diamond.
If the stone can scratch a glass, then it’s harder than the glass.
It may be a diamond.
Lots of other minerals are harder than glass. I think they’re quartz
Granite can scratch glass 😆
Good luck to all
Lord help those people from South Africa mostly all those who are poor and in need of their basic supply❤️🕊️🌹
South Africa. FAP DUPLESIS, JP DUMINY, DEQUCK , HARSAL GIBBS 👍👀
May now they become rich like Arabic countries after discovery of oil
Sorry oil is a dirty and dangerous product since it pollutes the environment like crazy and kills millions!
@Caring Sharing yeah but it is also a needed for doing a lot of things…now world is trying to shift towards other environmental friendly things but still world needs it untill it totally shifts towards them
here comes the white man , trynna get his hands in everything
Spreading lies and hate from your bedroom, like a true woke warrior
@C. MARTIN here comes a bot defending terrorists that has plenty evidence of their current/past history. Go back to your hole weasel
WHAT THE PRICE THEY ARE GIVING ITS NOTHING LIKE FREE OF COST IF REALLY PRECIOUS DIAMONDS.
it’s very expensive for quartz, which is what those crystals are.
Fortune wapy European are on mobile calls with authorities
If everyone has diamonds wouldn’t it then make the diamonds worth less. Idk I’m just saying
Diamonds are already worthless. The diamond companies keep them all in storage and slowly sell them the jewelry makers to keep the value up.. but they are still intrinsically worthless. We can manufacture diamonds better than the ones found in the earth. Only idiots buy diamonds for accessories.
That being said what ever these rocks are I want to buy one to support these people.
@Adam Adam I like that last part
Hope you will manage to protect that place otherwise you is gonna gain nothing if that white faces sees the diamonds
White faces lol, no white South African would go anywhere near there
Those who oppress Africa and black people will never allow all those black people to become Multimillionaires especially if this is really diamond, the only way is to lie to them so that they remain poor and oppressed
This is the pice a country pay for rising against white Supremacy
I’m thinking of going there and find me a couple of gold diggers
Stay where you are 😊
@Eliz Nambili with ur mother?
If it is quartz then gold can’t be to far away
Personally I believe diamonds are intrinsically worthless, their value is a sham ….but in this case I want them to be diamonds…..and even if they are not i will buy 1 off them. What ever they are let them make jewelry with them and let us all buy some. It’s 1000 times more honest than the current diamond industry and if that fact alone doesn’t make them more valuable than we aren’t worth saving.
@the who?
Those are industrial diamonds artificially manufactured. They are monumentally more useful than natural diamonds.
@Adam Adam they are real diamonds only being modified to form a teeth from their worm like digger mega machines. Thats how usefull a diamond is the hardest stone on this planet.
@the who?
Industrial diamonds are real diamonds. They are just man made, making them a lot cheaper and made to shape. Making natural diamonds worthless.
Synthetic diamonds are also superior in hardness according to the wiki page on industrial diamonds. The same source states that synthetic diamonds make up 98% of the world’s industrial diamonds.
So il repeat. Diamonds (natural) are intrinsically worthless
@Adam Adam they may be worthless to some uneducated people, but natural diamonds have many uses, they have some properties that man made ones have hard time to reproduce, and are indispensable in abrasive manufacturing
@HCqvintus
Nicky Oppenheimer is the chairman of De Beers. Incase you didn’t know De Beers is an international corporation that dominates diamond mining, diamond retail, industrial diamond manufacturing and has a massive storage of natural diamonds to maintain their retail value.
Being the chairman is Nicky Oppenheimer uneducated? No, he is the foremost authority on this topic and he is on record saying
, “Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.”
So, in your attempt to call me uneducated you inadvertently called the man himself uneducated. In short. GFY
Suddenly america will realise south africa needs a lot more democracy
Lol 😆
God forbid, 😅😅
I pray to God 🙏others don’t steal it from them and be honest enough to give them what it’s worth that they can feed their families.
Thanks we pray too,,, see this village,,, open the link
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I hope South Africans no matter their Skin Color benefit from their resources and are not exploited by Companies.
Yes
Treasure of Mahdi is been open even new Treasure is open, now under Turkish deal for 250 gram of Blue Daimond. Thanks Allah, وهذا رحمة الله ربنا المطلع العياده فى العالم ونشكره من نعمة الله وتجله بين كاف ونون
So? Are they? Or not?
Anyone who has found a wife has found something good and is well – liked with the Lord.
Providing she’s righteous 😇
Boko Haram,ISIS,Al Qaeda will soon be there!!!😡
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✅✅❤️ they deserve the riches
STFU and GTFO. They are not diamonds idiot.
No nonononononoo….. That’s not diamond.
Go away
@HELPME100 No. You go away.
Lol open the link and see the same village
Has anyone told them we can make them in a lab now with better clarity and fire?
How come engagement rings aren’t dirt cheap?
@CaRa Raah Because people have been conditioned to think that rocks are worth that much. Look up the documentary on Debeers and how they brainwashed people into buying it while standing by as people died to acquire them.
👉🇿🇦☻ – QUESTION IS: Are those Shiny Stones Really DIAMONDS? Let’s Hope so so these Poor People of SOUTH AFRICA can benefit from their LAND that GOD gave them.👍
🇿🇦 – Please just don’t Sell your “STONES” too Cheap. (GOOD LUCK & GOD BLESS YOU ALL).⛪❤🕌✔✔✔
Thanks open the link and see the same village
Unathi where’s the link ?
On no now America and england will invade this area
Quartz
The fact that the government officials have to take time to identify if this are diamonds means this is something good and they’ll find a way to make these people think it’s useless!
Every resource stolen from the “people’s” land will be swiftly recovered from these “illegal” miners.
I wonder how they manage on a day to day who’s claim belongs to whom…or is it first come first serve…
Everyone digs where they want to, you keep what what you find.
doesn’t matter, it’s worthless quartz.
😂😂😂😂😂 those are not diamonds.
I’m from South Africa and i have one here with me. You know nothing
@Chumani Tsawe I am in Botswana and I am telling you, those are not diamonds 😂.
@Chumani Tsawe what can south Africans teach batswana about diamonds?
If you know so much, tell us why you think they are diamonds.
I was worried, I was. Every African state needs a region fuelled by war diamonds, so say the lords, much too impractical to use gold.
Like they don’t know if these are diamonds or not a bunch of b*******
They are quartz 🤓🤦🏿
farmer: i need this hole field digging.
friend: I’ll start a rumor with these bits of glass.
$14? Dude that’s penny.
should be more like 14 cents for a quartz
France and US will loot everything
Hope they don’t rob them
$14 USD? Even if they are still uncut, they are being ripped off.
Are diamonds so easy to get?… I highly doubt those are diamonds. But what us really needed is jobs the government should be ashamed of itself for not providing for it population.
diamonds usually found 150-200km below the surface of the Earth. Here, temperatures average 900 to 1,300 degrees Celsius and at a pressure of 45 to 60 kilobars (which is around 50,000 times that of atmospheric pressure at the Earth’s surface). so as they say pressure makes diamonds (from depth)… i dont think you would find that many “diamonds” so close to the surface.
You are correct, But diamonds can also reach the surface through a volcanoes ‘kimberlite’ explosion…..If they are diamonds, they were probably spewed to the surface years ago
I hope they learn to keep y’all gentiles out of Africa 🙄😒
Now the whites will move in and take control of the land
Blessing to the people of African.
Diamond is the greatest scams of human history but I want them to get some money…
People will be kicking themselves in few weeks if they miss the opportunity to buy and invest in Crypto.
Really y’all know him? I even thought I’m the only one he has helped walk through the fears and falls of trading
I’m so happy for taking the bold step in working and investing $21000 with Mr Charles after a week I received $64680 to my bank
These scammers hahaha. Be careful guys, this Schwabb guy bs doesn’t exist.
@Faith Schwab is no scam
@Faith you are bs!
To protect humanity every-state autonomy for not corruption we will form a new country united-states-of-india
This is Africa where God loves mama Africa
32% of unemployment in the country is a disaster. How are these people living? in what conditions? I can´t believe we have this level of life here on earth while others spend billions trying to go to mars. Let´s fix our house first.
Peoples: Diamonds 😍
Government: Get off let me to take care of this.
People: Okay🥺
Government:We are rich boys. 👹
SA government is fooling people thosare fake says a diamond exchange AA diamonds in Bedfordview in Gauteng province
Be careful because the English Wil probably try annex the land
Yes, African Diamonds belong to Africans…..
Jah BLESS Africa 🙏🏾
South Africa will send a geo-survey firm to confirm whether there are diamonds in the area.
After which, the government will begin a bidding process to let private companies bid for the right to mine the area.
After which, the license will be granted to the highest bidder, and all these peasants will be forcefully removed.
Sounds far fetched? You just wait and see.
most vicius trolling I have seen this month 🙂
In south africa this land they are digging is municipal property so if any item of high monetary value is found here, the govt will view this as their possession and will make purchasing this mineral illegal thus killing the trade circle. There would be supply but no demand as it couldnt be resold. Sad reality is these people deserve to have a better life but if theres money to be made then our fatcat politicians will sniff it and swoop in.
That’s regular crystal Quartz, not diamonds 🤔
Looks like an environmental disaster.