Dark-field inspection · cut target GIA Excellent
Procut DCW · D and D Diamonds CC · Bedfordview
The manufacturing arm of the Etkind diamond operation.
Procut DCW is the cutting and polishing works run by D and D Diamonds CC, a South African Closed Corporation founded by Darren Lance Etkind. We are a De Beers DBCM Emerging Beneficiation Customer, a SADPMR-licensed beneficiator under the Diamonds Act 1986, and a sister business to the retail brand Prodiam Trading, through which our finished pieces are sold direct to consumers.
- DBCM EBC since 2019
- SADPMR AP5057/3 · valid 2029
- GIA Excellent only
- Natural only · KP compliant
- 01 Sourcing
- 02 Planning
- 03 Sawing · bruting
- 04 Polishing
- 05 Grading
- 06 Disposition
The works
What we do
Procut DCW takes rough diamonds, sourced through De Beers DBCM viewings in Johannesburg and from independent South African diggers we have worked with for decades, and polishes them in-house at our Bedfordview cutting works to GIA Excellent / AGS Ideal cut grade. The resulting stones either move into the Prodiam retail inventory or are placed with trade buyers under our Beneficiation Customer designation.
We do not stock or polish lab-grown / synthetic diamonds. Procut DCW is a natural-only beneficiator.
57 facets · eight-fold symmetry · cut to the GIA Excellent proportion range
Counterparty file
Why this matters for trade counterparties
- Beneficiation status
- De Beers DBCM Emerging Beneficiation Customer (EBC) since 2019. Documentary basis: signed DBCM EBC term sheet, current.
- Statutory licensing
- South African Beneficiation Licence under the Diamonds Act 1986 (SADPMR-licensed, valid 2029).
- Sourcing
- De Beers DBCM viewings (Johannesburg) for sight-equivalent rough; independent SA digger relationships for tender-house and field-bought parcels. All stones Kimberley Process compliant.
- Cut standard
- GIA Excellent cut grade. Equivalent to AGS Ideal cut. In-house polishing only, no outsourcing.
- Co-directors
- Molefi Letsiki,
CEO of Molefi Letsiki Diamonds, the first majority-black-owned
De Beers Sightholder in South African history (announced December 2022).
Sandile Tshepo Swartbooi, co-director.
Darren Lance Etkind, founder and director (in the SA diamond trade since January 1995). - Premises
- Suite F1W6B, The Paragon, 1 Kramer Road, Bedfordview 2007, Gauteng.
Buying and trade supply
Six ways stones leave this bench
Buy diamonds direct
How buying a natural diamond direct from the cutting works actually works, and the legal basis for it in South Africa.
Wholesale diamond supply
GIA-certified loose goods for jewellers, designers, and the trade, with forward parcel visibility.
Loose GIA-certified diamonds
Cut in-house, from melee to centre stones.
R/04Calibrated melee
Matched, consistent goods for pave and channel work.
R/05Engagement centre stones
Cut to order; finished rings through Prodiam.
R/06Bespoke and private-label cutting
Stones cut to your specification, plus recuts.
Background reading: the GIA Excellent standard we run and what a diamond cutting works does.
About the works
The programme, the partnership, the bench
The works sits inside two regulatory frameworks and one partnership: the DBCM Emerging Beneficiation Customer programme, the SADPMR licence regime, and a directorship shared with the first majority-black-owned De Beers Sightholder in SA history.
- W/01 The Beneficiation programme What DBCM EBC status actually means, and why it matters for traceability.
- W/02 The Sightholder partnership The Letsiki connection and the third-party press record.
- W/03 Manufacturing The cutting pipeline, the bench, the quality-control process.
- W/04 Credentials and verification Every licence and registration, with the independent way to check it.
- W/05 Trade contact B2B enquiries, viewings, partnership requests.
For consumers
Retail inventory lives at Prodiam
Finished loose stones, engagement rings, and ProJewel pendants are sold direct to consumers by our retail sister brand. Same bench behind every stone.