Category: Trading

Luanda – Angolan diamond trading company Sociedade de Comercialização de Diamantes (Sodiam) is due to auction, as of next June, rough diamonds worth between USD 27 million and USD 30 million.

According to a press release issued Thursday to ANGOP, the sale of the diamonds will include a selection of exceptional Special Stones from the Catoca, Luele, Lulo and Uari mines.

The document refers to a “run-of-mine” lot, varied in all sizes of the Luele kimberlite production (highly expected) from the Luaxe region.

It adds that evaluation sessions are scheduled for 9 and 23 June, 2021, at Sodiam’s premises in Luanda, while the presentation of proposals will end on 24 June, at 11am.

For this, Sodiam invites “non-registered” companies that wish to participate in the sale to submit their proposals only electronically, via the www.sodiamsales.com platform.

It informs that a detailed participation package will be provided at a later date to participants, whose appointments for viewing can be made through booking@sodiamsales.com.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Luanda – The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment (MCTA) on Tuesday highlighted the need to incorporate museums and similar equipment at the service of systematised research and cultural tourism.

In a message addressed under the celebration of the International Museum Day, the MCTA says a greater awareness of the value of material and immaterial heritage should be provided as a resource for development, demanding more rigorous knowledge and appreciation of our historical past.

The ministry appeals to museum professionals for new reflections that result in pedagogical ways to approach, safeguard and preserve the historicity located in museological institutions, as symbolic spaces of conservation, which have achieved greater importance in the cultural development of societies and their collective memory.

“We understand that museum professionals must face the new challenges in a transversal way, in a relationship of permanent dialogue with the advent of new technologies of the communicational sphere,” reads the message.

Angola has 12 museums in operation, institutions that began to emerge in 1956, being the Museum of Dundo (Lunda Norte), the oldest among Angolan museums, whose mission is to rescue cultural values.

The National Museum of Anthropology in Luanda is the most important national museum in the country.

Source: Angola Press News Agency