The decomposed body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in the North West province.
It...Over 4,000 illegal miners remain underground while police have cut water and food supplies. It is understood the body of the zama zama was retrieved around just after 11am Thursday. Vid: eNCA“We tried to say, because obviously the government have capacity of better measures.
This was the only thing that we could get when we requested community members to assist. So, it seems like we will continue with the same system to have fifty people on the surface. Retrieving one body underground.Five miners have so far been pulled out alive from mine. The include miners from South Africa, Mozambique and Lesotho.
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