They have subsequently revised this figure to a few hundred. Nobody knows for sure how many people are still inside the tunnels, which form an interconnected labyrinth of hundreds, perhaps thousands, ...

The High Court in Pretoria has ordered that any miners trapped in the mine be permitted to exit, and no non-emergency personnel may enter the mine shaft. Police wait outside an illegal entrance to a ...

The Gauteng High Court has ordered the unblocking of access to a mine shaft in Stilfontein to allow emergency personnel to reach illegal miners trapped underground. The interim order was issued on ...

A pet cocakpoo has been reunited with its owners after it got lost and was trapped down an old mine shaft for 54 hours. Poppy Jackson, 25, and Rob Mordica, 31, were distraught when their beloved ...

There is nothing left underground for now,” Ayanda Ndabeni, 35, who was hoisted out of the shaft on Friday, said on Sunday. In the past week, about a dozen people have resurfaced from the mine after ...

one of the few operational shafts in the town. The mine, founded in 1949, has not produced any gold in 30 years but now functions as a pump station for groundwater that inundates surviving mines ...

They have subsequently revised this figure to a few hundred. Nobody knows for sure how many people are still inside the tunnels, which form an interconnected labyrinth of hundreds, perhaps thousands, ...

15, 2024. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell) Volunteer rescue workers stand by the opening of a reformed gold mine shaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP ...

Any miners trapped in the mine shaft shall be permitted to exit. No non-emergency personnel may enter the mineshaft, said Judge Neukircher. The matter returned to court on Tuesday for the ...