The price offered pretty fairly reflects where De Beers is today...De Beers has changed dramatically over the past two to three years into a much more investor friendly company,
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What (Anglo gets) is a much more direct stake in a wide range of commodities. Anglo American is clearly a very widely diversified metals and mining group and diamonds would perhaps account for about 15 percent of that rather than the give or take 50 percent that they are within De Beers.
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Somebody who can bridge the sort of BEE-related divide, that would clearly be very good.
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