DA: Urgent action needed to save jobs in mining

Announcements that Anglo American plans to cut a third of its workforce and that Lonmin has increased the number of jobs it plans to cut‚ show the industry is in dire straits‚ and government needs to take urgent steps to save South Africa’s mining industry‚ The Democratic Alliance (DA) said. DA shadow minister of mineral resources‚ James Lorimer said his party believed steps government could take included revising proposed changes to black economic empowerment (BEE) ownership rules‚ and withdra...