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Sporong informal settlement residents in Randgate communit hall
Residents of the Sporong informal settlement in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg, claim that the conditions in which they are living at the local community hall are unhygienic.
They say that the hall is overcrowded and that they are sharing it with people who have chronic illnesses.
About 500 Sporong residents have occupied the hall for two weeks. This after fleeing illegal miners alleged violence and intimidation.
Residents say that they are not supposed to live like this in their motherland.
WATCH | Frustrated residents of the Seporong Informal Settlement in Randfontein say they are living in fear, claiming they are being terrorised by illegal miners. They allege that police are giving them the runaround despite reports being made. pic.twitter.com/aMawKnEDfZ
— SABC News (@SABCNews) January 21, 2026
Meanwhile, African Transformation Movement’s member of Parliament Vuyo Zungula says illegal mining in South Africa has become an organised, violent criminal activity that thrives on fear, displacement, and environmental destruction.
“Communities are being terrorised, women and children forced to flee, and entire neighbourhoods abandoned to criminals. No one should be forced to run from their home in their own country. This crisis demands immediate security intervention, urgent humanitarian relief, and a binding plan for permanent resettlement.”
Today, I visited displaced families from the Sporong informal settlement, currently sheltering at Randgate Community Hall in Randfontein. These families were violently driven from their homes by criminal illegal miners while the state failed to protect them. What I witnessed is a… pic.twitter.com/ehXvsYLvCS
— Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 (@ZungulaVuyo) January 21, 2026
