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South Africa: Miners to descend on gold firm HQ against job losses

SOUTH AFRICAN miners will march today to the AngloGold Ashanti headquarters in Johannesburg in protest at thousands of job losses.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said the march was against the firm’s announcement earlier this year of 8,500 redundancies at its operations in Matlosana and Carletonville region.

Union federation Cosatu, part of the tripartite coalition with the ruling ANC party, gave its support to the “pushback campaign” and called on all its members to join the protest.

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