Two dead bodies of illegal miners were recovered by volunteers from the illegal mining community in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Families of the miners have waited patiently for the remains to be brought to the surface.
Johannesburg police said anybody coming out of the mine would be arrested for trespass and breach of South Africa’s mining laws.
Scores of illegal miners die each year in the labyrinth of tunnels that stretch beneath the streets of Johannesburg and beyond, although police and the government admit they have no idea of the precise toll.
