Two more illegal miners have been retrieved from the abandoned shaft in Sabie, Mpumalanga.

This brings to ten the number of illegal miners brought to surface since yesterday.

The bodies of three illegal miners were also retrieved from the mine shaft yesterday.

National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Fannie Masemola is expected to visit the scene to monitor their operation, Vala Umgodi in the area later today.

More than a hundred miners remain underground.

The rescued miners have told the police that armed men are forcing them to mine gold under difficult conditions.

Police and emergency services were using a rope and pulley to bring the miners to the surface through a small hole.