79 miners rescued from S.African shaft, over 100 still underground

Some of the resurfaced 260 employees stuck underground climb a bus as they leave the South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater's Kloof 7 sub-shaft in Westonaria on May 23, 2025. Damage to a mine shaft had kept 260 miners stuck in a gold mine outside Johannesburg overnight, the mine manager and union said on May 23, 2025. [AFP]

Rescuers have hoisted 79 miners who were stuck in a gold mine outside Johannesburg but more than 100 were still trapped underground, the mine's operator said on Friday.

At least 260 miners were trapped underground on Thursday at the Kloof gold mine, 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of Johannesburg, after a hoist used to access the shaft was damaged in an accident, the mining company Sibanye-Stillwater said.