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Workers at a South African mine have resurfaced after being held underground for three days in what police are calling a hostage situation. Hostage-takers armed with weapons like clubs and mining tools had held more than 500 miners at the Gold One mine, the police said.
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Larry Mavima has implored small-scale miners from the province to desist from engaging in violence.
At least nine artisanal miners are feared dead after a mine shaft they were working in collapsed over the weekend.
The Zimbabwe National Army has urged traditional leaders in the Midlands province to partner law enforcement agents in thwarting violent clashes between artisanal miners in and around Kwekwe.
An artisanal miner who had been trapped alive for about five days, was crushed to death on Thursday night while authorities were battling to save his life.
A man died in Gwanda when a shaft he was working in collapsed while two illegal miners in Inyathi are feared dead after being trapped in a mine shaft since Thursday last week.
The bodies of 22 Zimbabwean illegal miners who were gassed to death in a South African disused mine arrived in the country Friday morning and a service was held for them before being dispatched to their respective final places for burial.
As friends and families of 22 of the 23 Zimbabweans who perished in a disused mine in South Africa prepare to accompany the bodies home, an official at the funeral parlour that is handling the repatriations has spoken out.
Black people are worse off than they were during the apartheid years, expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema said. More than 1000 mineworkers from the liquidated Aurora Empowerment Systems and the neighbouring Gold One arrived to hear Malema speak.
Dozens of miners are trapped underground at a platinum mine in southern Zimbabwe, a mineworkers union said today. Twenty miners were rescued but 65 are still trapped.