Retrenchment at Twickenham confirmed
These contractors must now face the possibility of unemployment without the financial aid of retirement and pension funds
BURGERSFORT – At least 800 contractors from Capital Development Services (CDS), who is a subsidiary of the Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) at Twickenham mine received notices on September 9 to retrench their employment contracts from October 3. These contractors must now face the possibility of unemployment without the financial aid of retirement and pension funds.
“Anglo American Platinum made a decision to delay all expansionary projects. As a result, the Twickenham Project is being demobilized until 2017 in order to better structure the operation to be fit for purpose with a reduced capital footprint” said Mpumi Sithole, Anglo American Media Manager.
CDS contractors are mainly management by SAN Contracting Services in Rustenburg which supplies labour on various sites to major mining houses including Anglo Platinum.
“When our contract agreements end on the mines, there is nothing we can implement to change that” concluded Mr Frans Burger, Media Correspondent at SAN Contracting Services.
Read the full story in Friday’s edition of the Steelburger/Lydenburg News.
