SOUTH African miners rallied against the latest round of 7,000 redundancies in the nation’s key industry yesterday.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) called a mass meeting yesterday afternoon at the workers’ hostel at Sibanye Gold’s Cooke mine south-west of the Soweto township near Johannesburg.

That was after the firm sent redundancy notices to more than 2,000 workers on Tuesday, telling them not to report for work as it was mothballing the mine’s operations.