Union concerned as 300 Sibanye Stillwater miners trapped underground await rescue

Around 300 mineworkers are trapped underground at Kloof Mine, reportedly without food or water.

May 23, 2025
Dominique Duvenhage Less than a minute
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About 300 mineworkers are currently trapped underground at Sibanye Stillwater’s Kloof Mine – near Randfontein and Westonaria – reportedly without access to food or water.

Randfontein Herald reports that National Union of Mineworkers spokesperson Livhuwani Mammburu says the workers became trapped yesterday in shaft 7 of the Kloof Mine.

“At the moment, the information is still scarce. We are waiting for the preliminary report. At this moment in time, we do not want to speculate. However, we are worried about the mineworkers,” Mammburu adds.

Randfontein Herald attempted to reach Sibanye Stillwater spokesperson James Wellstead, but he is currently unavailable.

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May 23, 2025
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Dominique Duvenhage joined the Randfontein Herald team in 2023. From a young age, she developed a great fascination with words and language. At the age of 12, she started writing novels and thereafter eventually began to write poems. Being a journalist is not a job for her, it is a career. As your community journalist, she has taken a pledge to write truthfully and reliably.
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