Job losses steal festive joy

Slow business: Gift wrappers have had low business
Slow business: Gift wrappers have had low business

Christmas is cancelled. There is no festive joy. By all accounts, whatever joy that could have been, was stolen by the wave of job losses in mining as well as the parastatal and private sectors in the second half of the year.

At the end of November, Mmegi estimated that at least 9,000 jobs had been lost directly in these sectors since July. Add to that, more scheduled retrenchments at the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre, downsizing at Majwe Mining, the Cut 8 contractor and 400 more jobs at Lucara Mine, through the axing of a mining contractor.

Retrenchments have taken or are taking place at BCL Mine, Tati Nickel Mine, Air Botswana, Banyana Farms, Botswana Housing Corporation, Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), Botswana Meat Commission and the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC).

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