STILFONTEIN, NORTH WEST - The illegal miners at the abandoned Stilfontein mine claim to be suffering desperate conditions underground.
On Christmas Eve, those still underground sent a fresh letter outlining the hardships they are enduring.
Eight more zama zamas surfaced today to be taken into police custody.
The authorities seem happy for the miners to surface on their own with no action being taken to go underground and get them.
Bafedile Moerane was on-site and managed to speak to some men that had resurfaced.