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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. 14,796 new Covid-19 cases recorded In SA, 293 more related deaths: South Africa has seen its highest number of daily COVID-19 infections with 14,796 new cases recorded, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 983,359. There have also been 293 more deaths with … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Dhananjaya de Silva doubtful for rest of series after retiring hurt: Dhananjaya de Silva is a doubt for the rest of Sri Lanka’s Test series in South Africa after retiring hurt on 79 on the first day of the Centurion Test. De Silva came in with Sri Lanka in trouble at … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. South African health workers stretched as COVID-19 infections near 1 million: JOHANNESBURG/CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Matron Annamarie Odendaal has cancelled all staff holiday on the COVID-19 ward at the private Arwyp Medical Centre in Johannesburg as a second wave of the … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Gauteng health officials release breakdown of the province’s COVID-19 figures: The sub-district, known as region E, is the worst affected in Johannesburg and also accounted for 238 deaths in the country. Gauteng health officials released a breakdown of the province’s COVID-19 … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Gauteng Health Department releases provincial COVID-19 statistics: City of Johannesburg has the biggest caseload (112 116) while 1 423 are new, as well as 1 977 deaths and 101 124 recoveries. Tshwane is second with 64 030 cases of which 1 141 are new, as well as 1 … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Johannesburg is more than 130 years old: The city was founded on the 4th of October 1886. It’s one of the youngest world cities though.

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Top Star Drive-In: Destroyed by What Created it

However, the very thing that created the Top Star eventually destroyed it. Because the early miners had used crude methods, the Ferreira Dump—and dozens of others like it—still contained significant traces of gold. As the price of gold rose and new chemical extraction technologies (like the carbon-in-pulp process) made it profitable to “mine the waste,” the ground beneath the Top Star became more valuable than the cinema itself. In 2006, despite fierce opposition from heritage groups who argued that the dump and the drive-in were culturally significant landmarks, the projectors were turned off for the last time.

The reclamation of the dump was a staggering industrial feat. Starting in 2008, mining giant DRDGold used high-pressure water cannons to “monitor” the dump, turning 5 million tons of solid earth back into a liquid slurry. This slurry was then piped 40 kilometers across the province to a processing plant in Brakpan. By 2011, the “mountain” had completely vanished. The 50-meter-high plateau that had dominated the southern skyline for a century was reduced to a flat, dusty crater.

The disappearance of the Top Star is a poignant symbol of Johannesburg’s “extractive” nature. It is a city that consumes itself to stay alive; even its historical landmarks are subject to the fluctuating price of minerals on the London and New York stock exchanges. Today, if you drive along the M2, there is an empty space in the sky where the Top Star used to be. While the reclamation removed a source of toxic dust and “acid mine drainage,” it also erased a piece of the city’s collective memory. The land where the gold-flecked mountain once stood is now being rehabilitated for light industrial use, proving that in eGoli, even the horizon is for sale if there’s enough gold hidden inside it.