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AKA reveals explosive details about his relationship with Anele Tembe & the day she died

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. AKA reveals explosive details about his relationship with Anele Tembe & the day she died: AKA, real name Kiernan Forbes, revealed the events of the day his fiancée Anele ‘Nellie’ Tembe fell to her death at a Cape Town hotel. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Saturday’s Guinness Rainbow Cup SA: Sharks beat Stormers; Lions shock Bulls: Recap Saturday’s Guinness Rainbow Cup action in South Africa, as the Sharks and Lions defeated the Stormers and Bulls … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Canoy falls again in African hands: Joey Canoy suffered another defeat in South Africa after losing to South African Nhlanhla Tyirha on May 22, 2021 (PH time) at the International Convention Centre in East London.Tyirha got the nod of a … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Chiefs get Wydad rematch in Champions League semis: Gavin Hunt’s Kaizer Chiefs will take on group stage opponents Wydad Casablanca in the Caf Champions League semifinals. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Siya, Pieter-Steph & Duane win & lose on the same day: Springboks captain Siya Kolisi showed strength and form for the Sharks in Durban, despite his team losing to the Stormers in the Rainbow Cup SA. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? The Rand Afrikaans University was founded in 1966. Its first campus was on the erstwhile premises of South African Breweries in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Later it moved to its new campus in Auckland Park. The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University.

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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.