Mines minister says Implats job cuts ‘reckless’

South Africa’s mines minister has urged platinum producer Impala Platinum’s to reconsider its plans to slash its workforce by a third over two years, calling the firms actions “careless”. “Their reckless actions add injury to insult,” mines minister Gwede Mantashe said in a statement, adding that Implats’ plans to cut 13 400 jobs was “a display of arrogance”.

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