# The DA says it will ask Mineral and Petroleum Resources minister Gwede Mantashe for a detailed plan to halt the jobs bloodbath in the mining sector. The sector has lost almost seven-thousand jobs in the second quarter. Coal miner Seriti Resources plans to cut as many as one-thousand-137 posts across two operations in Mpumalanga because the mines are unprofitable. The DA says the mining industry is a key sector of the country’s economy and therefore it is paramount that the jobs bloodbath is curbed.
DA urges minister Mantashe to address job losses in the mining sector