Current Events week 5 South Africa

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Miner-trapped-in-shaft-20120921

Miner Trapped in shaft
In an old Durban Deep mine located in Dobsonville, Soweto an illegal miner was trapped this past Friday. The miner was trapped in an extended shaft that was blocked off and was beyond the mine rescue team's area of operation. Emergency services required permission from the dept. of mineral and energy affairs to give the rescuers the go ahead. The miner was one of five, but the other four had returned to the surface earlier that day. They are still waiting on an update on this issue....

I have learned that it is very stupid to go down a mine shaft that is blocked off because you could get trapped obviously. It was obviously blocked off for a reason. As for the mining business, it will cost them some production time from the mine being shut down for rescue purposes.