About

About The Diamond Edit

A South African column on diamonds, jewellery, and the local trade — written from the inside, edited from the outside.

What this is

The Diamond Edit is a small editorial publication, published irregularly, covering the South African diamond and jewellery trade. The form is slow journalism: long-form essays, scene reportage from the dealer floors of Bedfordview and the Cape, opinion verdicts on the choices a South African buyer actually faces.

What it isn't

It isn't a comparison site. It isn't a buyer's directory. It isn't a "best of" list mill. There is no shopping cart, no affiliate program, no commercial arrangement with any dealer covered here. When a dealer is recommended in these pages it is because the columnist would send a family member to them — nothing else.

Who writes it

The column is written under a single byline, Themba Mokoena, in the tradition of magazine columnists like the FT's Lex or Tatler's Bystander. The byline is a column convention, not a claim about a single individual. Every piece is written by a real human and edited the same way. See the masthead for the full convention disclosure.

How to use the column

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