JOHANNESBURG - Efforts to extract illegal miners from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein will resume on Monday.
It comes as more illegal miners resurfaced over the weekend.
Plans to retrieve the hundreds still holed up faced a setback last week.
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A task team reported the presence of hazardous gases underground.
Community members are expected to use ropes to bring up the miners.
Heavy machinery will be brought in later this week.