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Union worried about state intervention in mining
Friday, 17 February 2012 08:09
Solidarity says as many as 6.5m out of approximately 9m people in the formal labour market could be affected negatively by state intervention in the mining industry. Yesterday it issued a report on the value of the South African mining industry, which explained how ordinary citizens, mine owners, employees, mining communities, the state coffers and, above all, consumers, benefitted from private mine ownership.
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