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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.