WATCH | 36 hours later, miners are still underground at Gold One

Thirty-six hours later, more than 500 miners at the Gold One mine in Springs, east of Johannesburg, are underground while unions continue to throw allegations against each other.  

Workers who want the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to be recognised as a union at the mine say those who are underground are there willingly, and that no one is holding them hostage, while the National Union of Mineworkers - which has been the only recognised union at the mine - allege that the miners are being held against their will and that AMCU members have assaulted some of them.

This after mine owners secured a court interdict against the AMCU and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday, prohibiting the detention of Gold One employees underground, prohibiting striking workers from preventing non-striking workers from entering or leaving the company's premises, and prohibiting strikers from damaging Gold One's property.