109 miners escape from gold mine in South Africa but others continue union standoff, official says

Published October 25, 2023 5:00 AM

By GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE
Associated Press

SPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — A company official says more than 100 miners have escaped from a gold mine in South Africa after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute. The official said Wednesday that around 450 workers remain in the mine, with an unknown number of them preventing the others from leaving as they demand formal recognition for a labor union. The company that runs the mine says it has rough estimates that around 110 to 120 of the miners underground might be supporters of the unregistered union and are holding the others. The union has given another version of events and says miners are staying underground willingly as a protest.

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