Mining Continues To Bleed Jobs

Monday, February 12, 2018

The slide in employment figures for the mining sector continues, with the latest Statistics Botswana survey showing that nearly 100 workers lost their jobs in the six months between March and September 2017.

The figures are contained in the data agency’s September 2017 formal jobs survey released on Thursday.

According to the survey, the number of workers in the mining sector dropped from 8,115 in March 2017 to 8,019 in September, continuing a slide seen since the third quarter of 2015.

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