When pigs die, expect changes . . .
Most events do not occur in isolation. One might not think, for example that a plague of flies in Egypt might be linked to an outbreak of swine flu in other parts of the world, but the connections become obvious when one steps back to look at the bigger picture.
On Friday, 3 February 2012, Impala Platinum took the extraordinary step of firing 17 200 workers at its Rustenberg mine (which happens to be the largest platinum mine in the world).