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  • Lonrho Mining has discovered an "exceptional 61.30 carat fancy yellow diamond" at its Schmidtsdrift Mine, along the western bank of the Vaal River, the company said on Thursday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • With further government and NGO help, houses were erected and the move from Schmidtsdrift started some three years later.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The Schmidtsdrift community spent its first decade in an army tent camp, exposed to the elements and without proper services.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • In 1990, some 1,000 San soldiers and their families took up an offer from the Pretoria government to settle at Schmidtsdrift, near Kimberley in South Africa's arid Northern Cape province, fearing reprisals from the new Namibian government if they stayed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Schmidtsdrift to Platfontein, would have to re-register for the upcoming national election, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Wednesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • To simply shift their tents from Schmidtsdrift to Platfontein was also not an option because they were now too tattered to survive such a move, Mishe said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Northern Cape land reform MEC Dawid Rooi this week also gave a reassurance that Dipico's promise to the Schmidtsdrift San "was still standing".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • While he is working hard towards resettlement of his people, the majority of them are in their thirteenth year of braving the dusty desert climate in their tents at Schmidtsdrift.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • When Namibia gained independence in 1990, the San soldiers were given the option to move to Schmidtsdrift with their families.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Schmidtsdrift San almost 13000 hectares of farmland, including

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

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