The Richtersveld community is to press ahead with court action..to bring into the open details of a “secret” deal struck by...De Beers, the department of minerals and energy and...Alexkor... Experts...suggested that De Beers had entered into the..deal...to extricate itself from a liability of R500m, the estimated amount it would cost to repair environmental damage. [Henk] Smith [of the Legal Resources Centre] said...it was unacceptable that the community’s rights had “once again” been ignored by the state.