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Local NPO Continues To Keep Midrand Community Safe

MyPR: Local NPO Continues To Keep Midrand Community Safe:

A store being fogged in Kyalami Corner. Photo: Photo submitted

Despite lockdown regulations easing down, a dedicated team of Scientology Volunteer Ministers insists on keeping their community safe by sanitizing Kyalami corner shopping center every week.

This week, they visited their local shopping center and sanitized it once more in an effort to keep Kyalami Corner shoppers and the community safe, a duty they have carried weekly since 2020.

Spending hundreds of thousands of hours trying to keep their neighbors protected, they also regularly sanitized local schools, houses, halls, community facilities, Kyalami country club and more around the Kyalami area to make sure their community is as safe as possible from this virus.

The shopping complex, a busy hub where Kyalami residents do their shopping for necessities, could act as a high risk cross contamination spot if not sanitized frequently.

“Our whole humanitarian purpose is to help people. And since covid hit at, we have been finding all kinds of ways we could assist”. Said Alice Zalabakova of the local NPO.

After they sanitized the center, a staff member from @Home (Homeware Store) in Kyalami Corner thanked the Volunteers profusely. “We feel so safe coming to work as a result of what you have been doing! I can’t believe how dedicated you are to helping others.”

One of the staff at Earthbound said, “Do you work like every day? Wow! This is unbelievable! God bless you and keep you safe wherever you go every day!”

One restaurant manager thanked the NPO saying, “Oh thank you so much. I am so glad to see you. You just took the burden off my shoulders now. Now I feel like we are safe again. I cannot thank you enough.

According to Alice, the team of hundreds of volunteers travelled across the country and sanitized more than 68,000 buildings including government offices, army bases, municipality buildings, clinics and hospitals, orphanages, shelters. This does not include the over 1.2 million taxis, buses, ambulances, fire trucks and more throughout all levels of lockdown.

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The Geological Miracle of the Witwatersrand

The very existence of Johannesburg is a geological fluke. Unlike most major global cities, Johannesburg was not built near a river, a coast, or a natural harbor. It sits 1,753 meters above sea level on a rocky ridge called the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters). This ridge is the edge of the world’s largest known gold deposit, formed over 2 billion years ago when an ancient inland sea began to evaporate, leaving behind layers of gold-bearing conglomerate.

When George Harrison, an Australian prospector, stumbled upon an outcrop of gold on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, he triggered a “gold rush” that changed the course of African history. Within a decade, a dusty collection of tents and wagons transformed into a permanent city of brick and mortar. The “Main Reef” proved so vast that it eventually produced nearly 40% of all the gold ever mined in human history. This geological wealth dictated the city’s layout: the mining belt runs east-to-west across the city’s center, creating a physical divide between the wealthy northern suburbs and the industrial, working-class south. Today, while most mines within the city limits have closed due to the extreme depth and cost of extraction (some mines reached over 3.9 kilometers underground), the physical legacy remains in the form of “mine dumps”—massive yellow-white hills of crushed rock and sand that define the Joburg skyline.