Dump diamonds for digital? Botswana bets on tech

A worker at the Botswana Diamond Valuing Company displays a rough diamond during the sorting process at the purpose-built centre in the capital Gaborone. Phatsima is just one part of a nationwide push to diversify Botswana’s economy, investing in science, tech and entrepreneurship to lessen a dependency on diamond mining. — Reuters

GABORONE: Every time an aeroplane streaked the sky over Kgomotso Phatsima's village in rural Botswana, she would pause, look up and vow she too would fly high one day.

Phatsima has more than kept her promise.