Friday, September 27, 2013

South Africa: Work stoppages hits Amplats mines in protest of impeding job cuts

(Reuters) - Fewer than one in five workers turned up for work at Anglo American Platinum's (Amplats) South African platinum mines around the city of Rustenburg, it said on Friday, in protest against planned job cuts.

Amplats - part of global mining group Anglo American and the world's No. 1 producer of the precious metal - said last month it would cut 4,800 jobs, laying off 3,300 workers and paying off the rest.

It backed away from a target of 14,000 jobs after a pushback from the

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