3,000 Botswana mine jobs on the line in SA

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JOHANNESBURG: Three thousand Batswana working in South African mines, particularly in the gold sector, may be retrenched as the electricity crisis in the country bites. Two of the world's largest gold producers, Gold Fields limited and Harmony have already indicated that they might slash jobs. More than 16,000 jobs will be lost.

Gold Fields limited spokesman, Andrew Davidson, says most of the jobs that are on the line are for contract workers.

The world's fourth largest gold producer employs over 40,000 workers. South African mines employ over one hundred thousand 100,000 rural migrant workers from the Southern African Development Community, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambigue and Swaziland.

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