Dec 7 (Reuters) - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) :
* NUM is shocked and saddened with notice they received from South 32 former BHP mine after they served NUM with section 189 notice to retrench 447 mineworkers in Kuruman
* Deeply worried about retrenchments at South 32 in Kuruman
* Retrenchment of 447 workers is bad given fact that majority of mineworkers support 10 people per family which means that 4 470 families will be negatively affected
* Estimate from our record that to date 24 000 employees were dismissed