UK-based global major industrial technology group Rolls-Royce has announced a major restructuring of its civil aerospace business, which will involve the loss of thousands of jobs. This restructuring will also affect the group’s central support functions. At least 9 000 jobs would be cut from Rolls-Royce’s total global workforce of 52 000. (This total workforce included 120 in Southern Africa, mainly in Cape Town and Johannesburg but also at an office in Zambia). These job cuts would form only part of the restructuring. The group was looking to achieve annualised savings of of more than £1.3-billion, and the reduction of the workforce would account for only £700-million of this. Rolls-Royce would also cut spending on plant and property as well as capital and other indirect costs, which would provide another £800-million in savings. The group had already cut executive pay and cancelled its dividend.