State diamond miner Alexkor to cut jobs
NUM blames public enterprises and mineral resources departments for failing to provide help
24 June 2019 - 05:10
State-owned Alexkor and its community-based joint venture are laying off 238 people as the diamond mining company’s financial crisis deepens, piling yet another demand on government funding to bail it out.
The announcement comes within days of President Cyril Ramaphosa announcing in his state of the nation address that government plans to create 100,000 jobs...
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