DStv Channel 403 Saturday, 23 November 2024

Watch | Steel and engineering jobs under threat

JOHANNESBURG - The steel and engineering sector has been bleeding jobs for more than a decade. But the sector is crucial for our economy because it is export intensive.

And it feeds other sectors, including agriculture, mining, electricity, water logistics and construction.

READ: Blackouts hammer steel sector

Now, the National Union of Mineworkers is warning that 10-thousand jobs may be lost soon.

This due to the raft of retrenchments at mines.

ENCA had a conversation with Tafadzwa Chibanguza, the COO of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa.

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