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Top global platinum miner Anglo American Platinum says it could cut up 14,000 jobs in a major restructuring at its strike-hit South African operations.
It says in a statement the firm will close 4 shafts and sell a mine considered unsustainable.
It says as a result of the proposed changes to the business, a total of up to 14,000 jobs may be affected, 13,000 of which will be in the Rustenburg area.
The area was the epicenter of last year's deadly violence associated with wildcat strikes.