Body of final miner found at Sibanye

Thirteen miners were trapped on Thursday morning following a rock fall in the mining town, west of Johannesburg.

Rescue teams managed to retrieve the final three bodies on Friday and Saturday morning bringing an end to the three-day long rescue mission. 

Six miners are receiving treatment in hospital. 

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe visited the mine on Friday evening and said the company needs to do more to ensure the safety of its workers.

"A mining company has the responsibility to provide a safe workplace. It is the responsibility of mine management and therefore workers are participants in a primary responsibility of management to ensure that the working place is safe."

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) also said it would be engaging the Department of Mineral Resources amid concerns of the rising number of fatalities in the country's mines.

The union's Livhuwani Mammburu says they are angry and concerned at the number of accidents and fatalities at Sibanye Stillwater.

" We are very worried recently as the NUM. You might have observed that all the mining incidents they mining companies are saying it is a 'seismic event' or 'fall of rocks'. We don't really understand that every mining incident that is happening now is because of fall of rocks, fall of rocks. 

"We believe that the Department of Mineral Resources must get involved and get to the bottom of this and investigate and find out what is really happening. Because we don't believe every mining incident that is happening in the country is due to fall of rock. We will engage with the company but we want the Department of Mineral Resources to get to the bottom of this."