Diamonds Show Me What You're Made Of

This is so exciting.

Emily, Kathryn, Rob, Ed

and Jasmine have been on an amazing African adventure.

-SHE SQUEALS

-What is that?

Now it's the last leg of their journey

and they move 500 miles north to the rocky centre

of South Africa to a diamond mine.

Oh, my God!

Will headstrong Emily finally knuckle down?

-SHE SQUEALS

-Oh, no.

Rob is annoying me.

Or will she get up to her usual tricks?

SHE GASPS

I think it settled.

And what happens when Kathryn joins in?

-I'm walking out.

-We're both going to walk out.

Girls, you need to realise I was not born yesterday.

I think Kathryn should stop following Emily and do her own thing.

We are in one of the most historic places in South Africa.

Kimberley is where the first-ever diamond was found on this whole

continent.

Our five are going to be working at the oldest diamond mining

company in the whole of the country - the world-famous De Beers.

Most of the world's diamonds are found in Africa.

It may look like piles of rubble

but this grey rock is packed with diamonds worth billions of pounds.

Once the diamonds have been mined, they are sorted into big, bigger,

and best.

I want to introduce you to two very important ladies.

-This is Paula. She is going to be helping you.

-Hi.

-And Mpumi.

-Hello.

How are you?

Mpumi is on the board of De Beers and she's brought something very

special out of the vaults for our kids.

The stone that I'll tell you about, it is called the Eureka stone.

In 1866, a young boy by the name of Erasmus Jacobs,

who was 15 years old, found the stone.

And it's the first-ever stone to have been recovered in Africa.

Incredibly, she is letting our kids handle this priceless diamond.

I hope they rise to the occasion.

It felt like plastic.

-Plastic?

-Yeah.

-No.

It's not plastic. You are in De Beers. We don't do any imitations.

This is the real thing.

This is not a good start to the day.

-Emily, this is worth millions and millions.

-What?!

I can't tell you how much of a privilege it is for you guys

to A, be here, and B, be able to touch - physically touch -

these diamonds.

-They are part of the history here.

-Yes.

Mpumi is leaving our kids in the hands of Paula,

one of De Beers' diamonds experts, for their first task.

What you guys are going to do today is to actually sort diamonds.

Oh, my gosh, they are actually letting them

get their hands on more real diamonds.

This is serious stuff.

The team are going to be sorting the gemstones from the industrial-grade

diamonds.

It's repetitive, painstaking work that requires accuracy, speed,

and concentration.

You will be using a head loop. I will pass these on.

I need to talk to you about the security of our product.

I really need you to concentrate on how you treat the diamonds.

I want you to treat them with respect, OK?

We need to make sure that all our diamonds is accounted for.

If maybe you drop the stone, I need you to stop immediately.

The security and the handling of these goods become extremely,

extremely important.

It requires quiet, concentration, and try not to disrupt each other.

This is going to be interesting.

-Silence, Emily, for 20 minutes.

-I can manage that.

Yeah? Can you?

You know your spaces, you've got the gear. Off you go.

The kids have got over 100 stones to sort through - a job that would

normally take a De Beers' worker five minutes.

The challenge is to sort these diamonds by colour.

The lighter and clearer the diamonds, the more valuable.

I think it's quite hard,

just of the fact that seeing the colours is quite difficult.

Like, telling them apart. It's not really that hard to drop them.

This is easy.

Paula. I don't know whether this one's brown.

This has kind of got a tinge of brown, but...

However your eye interprets it, just place it there, OK?

It's a fiddly job that requires great care -

not one of Emily's strong points over the last three weeks.

SHE GROANS

I can't get the hang of it. I think I just broke your plant.

I'm so sorry.

How was this... Oh! Oh, my God, are you OK?

Uh...

Today, can she change the habits of a lifetime?

I think I've got an infected one. It's got black stuff in.

You can all just see inside

and just try to focus on the colour of the stone.

-OK, thanks.

-Of course.

This one. Oh!

-This is a cardinal sin.

-Paula. There's one there.

Just right there.

We are literally minutes in and already Emily has dropped

a diamond on the floor.

I don't know how impressed Paula's going to be.

With thousands of pounds at stake, work has to stop immediately whilst

the diamond is recovered and the incident recorded.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Eighth window, west side.

Middle of the floor.

Why do you have to do that procedure thingy?

-It's purely just part of our security procedures.

-What, so no-one nicks it?

A dropped diamond could mean demotion.

Kathryn, meanwhile, seems to be finding it less of a challenge.

It's going pretty good. It's not that hard.

You've just got to have a good eye.

She may seem confident now, but at times she's found Africa hard going.

-No, don't touch it.

-Don't touch it.

Just hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.

I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by everything.

And is also easily led astray by her friend Emily.

OK, let's play rock, paper, scissors for it.

Are you ready? Rock, paper, scissors.

-No!

-Yes!

-What on earth is going on here?

It's just not cool. I'm flabbergasted.

But today it looks like she has put that behind her.

Um, I finished clearing them.

I just need to go over them and see if they're in the right place.

Emily finishes next and is looking for a chat.

-Are you done, Kathryn?

-Mm-hm.

-I finished first.

-OK, whatever.

Paula is not impressed. Rules are rules.

Meanwhile, the other three manage to finish their task in complete

-silence.

-OK, guys. That's it.

And as the results are added up,

the kids decide to assess their performances.

Me and Kathryn probably did the best because we were the fastest.

Yeah, it's about speed,

but you also need to get them in the correct piles.

If you speed, you might have got them in the wrong piles.

But if they take our talking into account, and demote us,

-I'm walking out.

-Yeah, we're both going to walk out.

Fighting talk, but will they be that brave in front of Paula?

OK, guys, so Paula is going to let you know about your statistics.

Rob, your percentage error rate was 6.5%.

Ed, percentage error rate of 9.5%.

Jasmine, your percentage error rate, 9.64.

Kathryn, 9.43.

And, Emily, unfortunately, your percentage error rate, 15.3.

It's not good for you, Em.

And, you know, the fact that you were talking,

the fact that you were the only person out of the five to drop

one of the diamonds on the floor...

Not a good task for you.

Emily is in trouble but has she pulled Kathryn down with her?

The only thing that sets Kathryn back is the chatting with Emily.

You guys were talking amongst yourselves.

That was happening, wasn't it?

Mm.

If Emily is talking to you, just don't listen.

You know the rules - "I've got to be silent for 20 minutes."

You don't have to answer anyone who's talking to you. Yeah?

Let's move on.

-I hope she doesn't watch us.

-Guys, you're talking now.

I cannot believe you're talking now. What are you talking about now?

-I said, "Are we going to walk off?"

-Tell me about this.

Is this a conversation that you had previously?

Girls, you need to realise I was not born yesterday, yeah?

Paula has been working in this industry for a very long time.

You've had a conversation.

You've just asked her, "Are you going to walk off?"

Walk off where? Where are you going to walk to? We can't get out.

We're locked in.

Where are you going to walk to?

Last factory, third week in,

and we're still having these kinds of conversations.

We're going to find out now who's been promoted

and who's been demoted.

-I will definitely be promoting Rob.

-Thank you.

Definitely be promoting Ed.

And we will be promoting Jasmine. Thank you very much, Jasmine.

Unfortunately, you two girls, nothing in it for you.

-OK.

-Sorry, girls. So you will be demoted.

You know the reasons why, yeah?

Kathryn, you're visibly upset.

Not getting promoted because of Emily has devastated Kathryn.

I do think that Emily led me astray back there.

Or maybe I led myself astray because she was just kind of talking

and then I just joined in.

Seeing that she has got demoted because of me, I feel awful.

I think Kathryn should stop following Emily and do her own thing.

She was determined to get the task over and done with.

And so, blowing her hopes of that, yeah,

it's not something you want to do to your friend.

I need to get Emily and Kathryn back on track.

I want them to meet a family whose livelihood depends on diamonds.

-BOTH:

-Hi.

-Hello!

Abel is a diamond mine success story

who has worked his way up to senior manager.

His 12-year-old daughter Cindy is keen to meet our girls.

Are you proud of the job that your Dad has?

I am proud of my Dad, and I'm proud of the job he has done and, like,

the long way he has come. Yeah.

Do you feel fortunate for everything you've got, like...

Because I know that I didn't,

because I don't think I realised how poor people got.

And you're so very aware that people are very poor here.

I do think I'm more grateful, because when you're watching the news

and things like that you see some people, like, suffering,

so I do become grateful,

and I do take things for serious.

What do you want to do when you're older?

I want to be a lawyer, because I like helping people.

I think people deserve chances, and things must be done the right way,

so that's what I want to do when I'm older.

I think I'm just not committed enough to go to law school,

because, you know, you've got to work really hard.

-You've got to have a lot of patience.

-Yeah.

-And that's something I don't have.

-THEY LAUGH

-Bye.

-Bye.

-Bye.

I hope that meeting Cindy has helped Emily and Kathryn see that

if they set their mind to something, they can achieve so much more.

She studies, like, super hard in school,

-because she's really wanting to be a lawyer.

-She wants to succeed.

-Yeah.

-And she will. She'll try really hard.

-Yeah.

And the difference is is that we want to succeed,

but we don't want to work for it.

Yeah.

But with the final task tomorrow,

working hard is exactly what they have to do.

It's our last morning in Africa,

and the last chance for our five to show us what they're made of.

I'm hoping they're going to walk in there, prove themselves,

and all come back with wages.

Jasmine and Ed were promoted yesterday,

so they have been entrusted

with one of the most important jobs at the mine - security.

They are off to meet their new boss, Mark,

whose job it is to protect the £1 billion operation

inside the gates.

If you can take a note,

it's the boomgates where people enter the mining area.

This is our first line of defence as security.

What we're going to do, we're going to explain to you briefly

on how to do a breathalyser test.

You need to blow into it.

It'll be checking, see if there's any alcohol in the person's system.

When the light turns green, it means the person's clear to come in.

-If they blow red, they don't go.

-Gotcha.

It's a big responsibility.

No-one is allowed on site with even a trace of alcohol in their system,

and they must have the correct ID.

It's very important that everybody that accesses the mining area

have an access card.

Let them blow, and ask for their access card.

-Hello.

-Hi. How are you?

-I'm good.

-Hiya. Blow into this, please.

-Hey.

Blow into this, please.

Thank you.

-Your card?

-Here you go.

-Cool.

-Thank you.

-OK. Enjoy.

-Have a good day.

-Thank you.

So, how are you finding it so far?

Oh, I'm actually finding it kind of fun.

HE LAUGHS

Having the power to, um...like, um, letting them

-through or not letting them through.

-Yeah.

I'm finding this cool. I'm getting the hang of it.

Following the instructions. Getting it right.

Ed and Jasmine seem to be acing this task, but how do they cope

when they get a van-load of workers all needing to be checked?

Can you blow into this, please?

-OK.

-Thank you.

Hi. Can you blow into that? Yeah. See if you're not drunk.

Can I see your access card, please?

Thank you.

Have a good day! Bye.

This is probably the most important thing about this mining place,

really.

If we just let everyone through,

people would just be able to go in and out with diamonds really easily.

All good so far,

but how do the team handle their first tricky customer of the day?

-Have a good day so far?

-I am doing quite good.

-Good.

-Can you blow into this, please?

-What?

It's to check if you had alcohol.

No. I didn't have alcohol.

If you get a difficult customer, you need to know your procedures.

-Just blow into it, though.

-Huh?

-Can you blow into it?

No, I didn't have alcohol.

You need to keep your emotions out of the picture.

-I know, but this is a check.

-Huh?

-It's just a check.

-Why?

-It's a safety rule.

-To see if you're not drunk.

It is your responsibility to protect anything beyond that line.

There's no sign that says I'm going to get blown when I come in.

-Well, you could be lying to us, sir.

-Huh?

-You could be lying to us.

They don't come onto the premises. Period.

-STACEY:

-Meanwhile, down at the mud flats, our demoted pair have got

the dirtiest job at the mine - digging trenches.

-Eww, that's disgusting.

-Eww.

Diamonds are mined here by sifting through mountains of rocky deposits.

Inside huge water drums,

the diamonds are separated off from the silt.

The waste product is pumped to these mud flats,

where it needs to be cleared to prevent it building up.

And that is a job made for Kathryn and Emily.

-Right. You start there, and I'll start here.

-OK.

Senior manager Abel will be their boss today,

with promoted Rob supervising.

SHE GROANS

Emily, come on. Just get back to work.

-Things don't get off to a good start.

-This is really difficult!

Emily, don't do it that way. It's going to be even harder.

Turn the other way round, and then do it.

Kathryn, don't go too deep. And move forward a bit.

SHE SQUEALS

Oh, no! No!

-And Emily still has trouble taking instruction.

-Emily, don't stop.

-Keep going.

-Rob, I'll slap this out of you.

Do you know what? If he was...

If Stacey wasn't there, his face would be deep in this.

I was about to say maybe

if you didn't talk in the last task, you wouldn't be here.

Rob, shut up.

SHE GRUNTS

THEY LAUGH

Back at the main gates,

have Ed and Jasmine finally got things under control?

I don't think I can blow through that thing. I've got asthma.

He said that he had asthma and he can't breathe properly.

This time, Jasmine's not taking no for an answer.

-So, you're saying you have asthma?

-Asthma, yeah.

-So, where's your asthma pump?

-Huh?

If you've got asthma, let's see your pump.

It's here.

-So, you can just use it afterwards.

-Huh?

-You can just use it afterwards.

It ended up he did blow into it, in the end.

Ed and Jasmine are on a roll.

-Are you having a good day today?

-Pardon? Yes, yes, yes.

I'm impressed with the two of them. Really, I am.

They're a pair of rough diamonds, but having in the hands of somebody

that can shape and mould them, perfection.

Happy dance!

'Back at the mud flats, things are also looking up.

'The girls are finally giving it some welly.'

Nice and quick. Nice and quick. Nice and quick, girls.

'And Abel decides he's seen enough.'

OK, girls. Do you want to hop out?

SHE GRUNTS

-Rob, do you want a hug?

-No way. If you come near me, I swear...

-Not my... Why? Who does that?

-Come away from there.

Right, girls. Come over.

THEY LAUGH

-I have never been this muddy in my life.

-Do you know what?

Hats off to you girls for really going for it.

And I feel like you needed to do this,

because you let yourself down in the last task.

So, all in all, a massive thumbs-up. I'm very pleased.

OK. Let's make a move. Come on, my muddy warriors. Follow me.

Is there a bath?

It's time to head back to base to meet up with the others.

As all of the kids have worked hard today, I'm taking them

to the inner sanctum of the mine - the lab.

The mine uses thousands of gallons of water to extract diamonds,

and samples of this water are tested before it's reused.

And that's what our kids are going to be doing for their final task.

Welcome, guys. This is the Kimberley mines laboratory.

We've basically got a task here for you guys.

We'd like you, then, to settle as much mud out of the water

as possible by using as little of this flocculatory agent as possible.

This expensive chemical solution separates the mud out from the

water, and the team's task is to use it as sparingly as they can.

So, I'm going to start with you, Jaz.

The other four, you can leave the room.

I'll leave you with your new boss, Bonge.

-Please put your gloves on.

-OK.

-Is that about 5ml?

-It's about five.

-And the time starts...now.

I have to make my science teacher proud.

One, two...Done.

Please do well. Please do me well. Please do me well.

You just need to watch for these floccules to actually settle

and actually compress nicely.

And stop. That seems sufficiently settled.

So, your time then - three minutes, 13 seconds.

They're doing this task one by one, so it's just them and their boss.

I've left them to it, but it is a lab,

so it's all about the precision.

But that's not Ed's approach. He uses all the solution in one go.

Whoa!

All the water's going up to the surface.

An anxious-looking Rob is up next.

I don't even know how to suck it in. Do I just push that down? What?

Do I literally just hold it in? I don't know what I'm doing.

OK. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool.

Whoa, whoa. That was cheeky.

Kathryn's up next. Can she end on a high?

-Kathryn, any time you're ready.

-OK.

She's listening to every word her boss is saying.

She's taking her time. And, most importantly, she's precise.

You've used 3ml of the agent,

and you've gotten your bed to settle in about two minutes and 32 seconds.

Is that good?

Do I look impressed?

And last but not least, Emily. How will this go?

That's a good start. Can't even put my gloves on.

Expensive stuff.

SHE GRUNTS

I can't do it. Eurgh!

Shaking for my life.

Ooh. It's stuck to my hand. Eww.

SHE GASPS

Oh, dear.

Of all the people to have an accident with - her boss.

SHE LAUGHS

I'm so sorry. I'm really, really sorry.

That's such a good way to make an impression

on your boss, isn't it?

-I just spilt the whole thing over the boss.

-Wait, wait.

-The whole, like...?

-The whole thing.

-That's so annoying, cos you did so well in the last task.

-I know.

If it makes you feel any better, I did terrible.

Do you think you'll get paid?

No. I think that's blown my chances for getting paid.

Despite all of Emily's best intentions,

she's just gone horribly, horribly wrong in there.

I am a bit gutted for her.

And there's only one way to find out if anyone's getting paid,

and that's in the final boardroom.

Last factory, last task, and this is our very last boardroom meeting.

-How we all feeling?

-Nervous.

-Yeah. Like, all of us.

So, with that said, Abel, I wonder if you'd mind just quickly going

through each of our kids and telling them how you believe they behaved.

Ed is a bit... You've been a bit reserved,

but you had a positive attitude towards the job that you were given.

Robbie, today I saw a leader in you. Very calm.

Emily was saying things to you, but you didn't get, um...

You didn't respond.

How did our Jaz do?

-Energy, energy, energy, energy.

-SHE LAUGHS

How did our Kathryn do?

-You were given a very difficult task today.

-Mm-hm.

You didn't give up, but you kept on pushing forward.

Me and Emily had a game plan.

We were just going to really try our best, cos we wanted to leave

South Africa knowing that we had tried really hard.

-Emily.

-THEY LAUGH

This is the worst part.

Just like me, a person who speaks your mind.

THEY LAUGH

It is great that you're able to speak your mind.

You know, to have such confidence,

and to have such conviction is an asset in certain circumstances.

SHE LAUGHS

So, it's just picking your battles and, you know,

picking the right places to voice your opinion.

All great comments, but how did they do in the final task?

-The first person who did very well would be Kathryn.

-Thanks.

The second person was Jaz. Well done, Jaz.

Third person was Rob.

You did very well. Fourth person was Ed.

And then Emily.

So, that brings us to the wages.

Abel has made the decision as to who he wants to pay.

I've decided, based on attitude, based on the commitment,

that I'm going to pay...

..all of you.

Whoo!

That's amazing!

'Even Emily got paid. Good thing for her that Abel is such a softie.'

500 each. It's a day's wage you've got there.

It's just under 30 quid.

-Thank you.

-Thanks.

-You deserve it.

-Whoo!

-Thank you, Abel.

-Thank you.

-Well done.

Three weeks ago,

these British kids hadn't done a day's work between them.

The toughest part of this is actually finding healthy ones.

I put the wrong one on.

-Some of the jobs they did pushed them to their limits.

-Oh!

They all look the same! It's really hard to pair them.

-Emily, quickly!

-I'm trying.

And seeing how some children have to survive was even more of a shock.

-People live here?

-Yes. People live here.

Where do you sleep?

-I don't even know what to say, to be honest.

-Whoa.

Look at that, look at that. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa! That's massive!

Now they are home with their families,

has anything really changed?

A month ago, Emily was the ultimate material girl.

When I came back from Africa, I got money for my birthday,

and usually within a couple of days it's probably spent.

But it's been, like, almost a month now,

and nothing has happened with that money.

And there's been no train of thought to where that money's going to go.

That is a revelation.

-SHELLEY:

-She's not nearly as materialistic,

but I could see that could easily slip the other way.

She still likes nice things,

but I think she realises now that, "Actually, I don't need them."

Whoa!

THEY SQUEAL

Ed's time in Africa gave him the wake-up call that he needed.

Being away from my family has made me miss them more.

So, now I treat them with a little bit more respect than I used to.

I think he's just a little bit more appreciative of the things that we

do for him.

You know, he's quite often sort of coming up to me

and sort of putting his arm around me and going, "Oh, thanks."

Or that kind of thing. Which is lovely.

Rob realises there's life outside the mirror.

-NIGEL:

-When he first arrived at home, I think he was noticeably quiet,

but I think he definitely has become a little bit more considerate.

A little bit more thoughtful.

He understands things a little bit more, and I think, more importantly,

he understands where things come from.

And I think that's quite a big shift, really.

Since I've been in Africa, I have come to realise that

I am a really privileged child, and I've got things I don't need,

and people back in Africa, they wouldn't have a phone.

They wouldn't have an iPod or anything like that.

Life in Africa has made Kathryn see just how much her Mum

does for her.

Kind of made me think about my Mum, and how she probably works,

like, really hard for me.

Maybe I kind of took it for granted, but now I realise that

I wouldn't really be much if my Mum wasn't there to look after me.

Since Kathryn came back from Africa, I feel she does want to help me

more at home.

She does realise that she has a whole lot more than other

people in this world.

One.

And has Jasmine swapped selfies for selfless?

My mum wanted me to stop thinking the world revolves around me.

But I've actually, like, realised, "It's not just your world, Jasmine."

It's, like, ten gazillion people else in different countries -

that it's their world too.

Until you experience something which is

so life-changing like this experience was,

I don't think you're ever going to understand what it's like.

Like, something inside you just changes.

-ALL:

-Show me what you're made of!