Preparations have begun for a rescue operation of hundreds of illegal miners in a two-kilometer-deep disused gold mine in South Africa. There has been a tense standoff between police and the miners as they refuse to come to the surface for fear of being arrested.
Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Stilfontein.
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