{"id":83894,"date":"2026-01-23T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83894"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:20:08","slug":"violence-by-illegal-gold-miners-in-south-africa-forces-families-to-leave-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/violence-by-illegal-gold-miners-in-south-africa-forces-families-to-leave-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence by illegal gold miners in South Africa forces families to leave homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UO5iT.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"An aerial view of a closed mineshaft where illegal miners are inside, Stilfontein, South Africa, 13 November 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of people have fled their homes in the Sporong informal settlement near the gold mining town of Randfontein in South Africa.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/violence-by-illegal-gold-miners-in-south-africa-forces-families-to-leave-homes\/ar-AA1UO9MG?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6973585ea68c495b819fe66088f3a631&amp;ei=39\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hundreds of people have fled their homes in the Sporong informal settlement near the gold mining town of Randfontein in South Africa.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Minning-south-Africa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83895,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83894\/revisions\/83895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}