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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Tuesday said while it will not dictate to its members which party they must vote for in the upcoming general election, it has identified several parties that they should not even consider.
Zimplats, the 87 percent-owned subsidiary of Implats, South Africa's second largest platinum miner, is currently the only operation in the group that is producing platinum for sale, according to the South African daily, Business Day. The paper said all the other mines had either been shut down because of a strike by the Association of