One union alleges the mineworkers were ‘held hostage’ while another contends they were staging a ‘sit-in’ protest.
More than 100 miners who had been underground for nearly three days amid a standoff between rival South African labour unions have returned to the surface.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said on Wednesday that 107 miners “have come back to the surface” at the Gold One mine, east of Johannesburg.
“They are currently at the medical station for further check-ups,” NUM spokesperson Livhuwani Mammburu told…
