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Operation at buffelsfontein 11 shaft and summary of arrests at shafts from august 2024 until date:
Operation at buffels 11 mine:
13/1/2025 to 15/1/2025.
Total of alive persons brought to surface:
246.
Total of bodies brought to surface:
78.
Nationality of the 246 arrested persons:
Mozambican: 128.
Lesotho: 80
Zimbabweans: 33
South Africans: 5
Summary of illicit miners surfaced for period 18 August 2024 until
15 January 2025:
Total of 1905.
Margaret shaft: 1437.
Buffels 11 shaft: 365.
Buffels 10 shaft: 103.
Mozambicans: 1125.
Zimbabweans: 465.
Lesotho: 200.
South Africans: 26.
Malawians: 1.
Congolese: 1.
Bodies to surface: 87.
Of the illicit miners arrested a total of nine (9) is still in hospital under police guard.