“There's something like 4,000 plus people underground,” says police spokesperson, Sabata Mokgwabone. The illegal miners are in a disused gold mine in Stilfontein, a town 140 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, the same location where earlier this month in a crackdown, South African police rounded up 834 clandestine miners who resurfaced after security forces cut off their food and water supplies. IMAGES