ZAMBIAN MINES CUT 3000

AN estimated 3000 miners making up about half the workforce at the Roan Antelope Mining Corporation in Zambia’s Copperbelt are expected to lose their jobs in coming weeks as part of an exercise to streamline privatisation operations, the Zambian Daily Mail reported on Monday. It said the Mine workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) was negotiating with the state-run Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) to ensure proper retrenchment packages and improved conditions of service for those remaining.

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