BCL liquidator retains 400 workers

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Only 400 of the 5,000 BCL and Tati Nickel Mine workers have been reengaged by the provisional liquidator to carry out care and maintenance works at the recently mothballed mines.

The temporary reprieve for the 400, effectively rendered 4,600 Tati and BCL workers unemployed from  October 31, 2016.

Provisional liquidator Nigel Dixon-Warren yesterday told Mmegi Business that the 400 workers will be remain employed until a decision on the fate of the two mines is made, possibly by February next year.

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