BOTSWANA DIAMONDS PLC

Board/Management Information • Sep 2, 2014

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Botswana Diamonds PLC

02 September 2014

02nd September 2014

Botswana Diamonds Appoint Anne McFarland as Director

Botswana Diamonds (AIM: BOD) is delighted to announce the appointment of Anne Margaret McFarland, 53 as a non-executive director.

Anne has extensive experience in resources in Russia.  For fifteen years she worked as a senior finance executive for Glencore, BP and Russian conglomerates.  She is fluent in Russian.  She holds qualifications from Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and qualified as a chartered accountant in London.

John Teeling, Chairman, commented "Anne will bring added dimensions to our board.  A fluent Russian speaker with many years on the ground resources experience in Russia she will be actively involved with our fast growing joint venture with Alrosa."

Ms McFarland is currently or has within the past 5 years been a director of the following companies

Current Directorship	Past Directorship
Gartan Finance Ltd	ArKa Merchants Ltd
Segezha Ambalaj Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.	Segezha Packaging AB
	Segezha Packaging GmbH
	Segezha Packaging Srl
	Segezha Ambalaj
	Segezha Packaging SAU
	Headfort Trust Ltd

Ms McFarland holds options over 250,000 shares in Botswana Diamonds exercisable at a price of 2.75p per share. 

There are no further disclosures under Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

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Enquiries:

Botswana Diamonds PLC
John Teeling, Chairman	+353 1 833 2833
Jim Finn, Director
Westhouse Securities Limited
Martin Davison	+44 (0) 20 7601 6100
Robert Finlay
Dowgate Capital Stockbrokers Limited
Jason Robertson	+44 (0) 129 351 7744
African Alliance Botswana Securities
Kabelo Mohohlo	+267 364 3954
Oratile Leburu	+267 364 3977
Blytheweigh	+44 (0) 20 7138 3204
Tim Blythe	+44 (0) 7816 924 626
Halimah Hussain	+44 (0) 7725 978 141
Camilla Horsfall	+44 (0) 7817 841 793
Pembroke Communications
Natalie Tennyson	+353 1 649 6486
Alan Tyrrell	+353 1 649 6486

www.botswanadiamonds.co.uk

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