This article forms part of a National Research Funded (NRF) project on community engagement in South African mining communities. The research was undertaken to specifically investigate the Ecohealth and well-being status of mining communities, with a research emphasis on the Bekkersdal Township, nowadays located in the Rand West City Local Municipality (RWCLM) as part of the West Rand District Municipality (WRDM), Gauteng Province. Bekkersdal inhabitants in this once thriving mining region remain prone and vulnerable to extreme poverty and unemployment that affect the well-being of the community, thus necessarily threatening the Ecohealth status of the area in which all community members live. After nearly 80 years of active mining operations in the region, the gold mining industry remains the major employer, and all indications are that most mines will be able to continue business as usual for 60 to 70 more years. The purpose of the