South Africans Demands UK to return diamonds in King Charles crown jewels - King Charles coronation. Some South Africans are calling on the United Kingdom to return the world's largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa, to its rightful place in South Africa. The diamond is currently set in the royal sceptre that King Charles III coronation will hold on Saturday, May 6th, 2023. According to the Royal Collection Trust, which oversees the royal collection of the British royal family, the Cullinan diamond was presented to King Edward VII (the British monarch at the time) in 1907, two years after its discovery in a private mine in South Africa's old Transvaal province.
Now amid a global conversation about returning artwork and artefacts that were stolen during colonial times, some South Africans are calling for the diamond to be brought back.
“The diamond needs to come to South Africa. It needs to be a sign of our pride, our heritage and our culture,” said Mothusi Kamanga, a lawyer and activist in Johannesburg who has promoted an online petition, which has gathered about 8,000 signatures, for the diamond to be returned. “I think generally the African people are starting to realize that to decolonise is not just to let people have certain freedoms, but it’s also to take back what has been expropriated from us.” The diamond in the sceptre, officially known as Cullinan I, was cut from the Cullinan diamond, a 3,100-carat stone mined near Pretoria. Cullinan II, a lesser diamond cut from the same stone, sits in the Imperial State Crown, which British monarchs wear on formal occasions. It is stored at the Tower of London with the other crown jewels, together with the sceptre. Ironically, only a replica of the whole Cullinan diamond, which is about the size of a man’s fist, is displayed at the Cape Town Diamond Museum.
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