JOHANNESBURG - Criticism has mounted against the government due to the death toll in Stilfontein in the North West.
No less than 78 corpses have been retrieved since Monday when a court-ordered rescue operation began.
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216 miners have been rescued alive after more than a thousand emerged from the mine earlier.
The DA has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to establish a Commission of inquiry into all aspects of what happened at the Buffelsfontein mine.
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DA spokesperson on Mineral and Petroleum Resources, James Lorimer had a discussion with eNCA on this topic.