More miners face retrenchment in South Africa

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Channel: CGTN Africa · 2015 · News & Politics

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Retrenchments in the mining sector is South Africa have become a fact of life. The sector has lost thousands of jobs in the last decade and it appears that the trend is set to continue. Australian-listed South32 is latest to announce plans to cut 447 jobs at a South African manganese mine.. The National Union of Mine workers which is the country's largest mining labour body, is now calling on the mines ministry to "intervene to halt" and prevent the layoffs. Angelo Coppola reports on the unfolding situation in the sector.

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