Arcelor Mittal SA, which has already cut 1,000 jobs, plans to shed hundreds more as it battles low steel demand and rising costs.

Africa’s largest steelmaker could retrench 400 employees from the Newcastle operations in KwaZulu-Natal, CEO Kobus Verster said on Thursday...

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