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Over 500 Gold One mine employees resurfaced on Wednesday after being held underground in what the police described as a hostage situation as part of a labour dispute between two rival worker unions, NUM and Amcu.

This comes after an end to the impasse at the Gold One Modder East mine in Springs, which saw more than 500 workers stuck underground for three days.

A compromise to end the sit-in was reached after women in the group started to complain about itching from not bathing for three days, a lack of medication, menstrual discomfort and fatigue

A labour dispute between trade unions Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union and National Union of Mineworkers forced the gold mine to halt underground operations for three days where over 500 workers were trapped.

Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the standoff said.

The union Amcu claims that miners are voluntarily protesting underground at Gold One, but there are definitely people being held hostage.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of their colleagues underground for a second day at a gold mine in South Africa over a union dispute, police and mine officials said Tuesday. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the mine said.

Mineworkers sang outside a Springs shaft, where more than 500 workers have been underground since Sunday

News update: The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) board has terminated CEO Andile Nongogo’s contract.

A company official says more than 100 miners have escaped from a gold mine in South Africa after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute