Mogale City was established as a mining town and is now suffering devastation caused by illicit activities such as illegal mining by Zama-Zama's in the entire area, this is a massive problem as the damage to infrastructure causes sinkholes to collapse roads, such as Windsor Road, and places the lives of residents at risk. The areas of West Village and Luipaardsvlei are particularly hard hit as well as Soul City, and Swaneville, Kagiso, as well as Kromdraai, Muldersdrift, Magaliesburg and areas bordering Randfontien. This brazen attack on people's lives, water infrastructure, electrical infrastructure, as well as roads is an outright declaration of war on the people of Mogale City in particular, but the West-Rand in general, indeed this rampant disrespect of the Rule Of Law and life by Zama-Zama's (many people are being beaten, murdered and raped) requiring urgent intervention by National Government including mobilizing SANDF to protect our citizens. Multiple departments and spheres of government  need to coordinate such as Home Affairs, SAPS, Public Safety, Provincial Community Safety, National Defense force, department of environment forestry and fisheries, the department of mineral resources and energy as well as State owned enterprises such as Rand-water, Eskom and PRASA to protect their infrastructure. This petition calls on all three spheres of government to establish an anti-Zama-Zama's committee to coordinate action plans to address this matter as a high priority urgent need. Multiple areas in Mogale City are suffering under the crippling effect of illegal mining that a disaster zone declaration is imminent. A commission of inquiry is further needed and is necessary to establish where the profits are being made along this illegal mining value chain. This is a national, provincial and local issue and can create severe and permanent damage to local and national economies, as well as people's lives. We desparately need National and Provincial Government intervention.