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CoJ: Repair of Potholes, Crumbling Infrastructure, and Proper Budget Allocation

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CoJ: Repair of Potholes, Crumbling Infrastructure, and Proper Budget Allocation:

We, the undersigned residents and taxpayers of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, hereby submit this petition in the interest of our communities and the fair use of public funds.

Our Concerns:

  1. The ongoing neglect of roads are visible in the numerous potholes and unsafe driving conditions across the city.
  2. The rapid deterioration of municipal infrastructure, including street lights, traffic signals, stormwater systems, water and electricity infrastructure.
  3. The mis-allocation and misuse of funds that should be directed toward infrastructure maintenance in tax-paying wards.
  4. The failure to ensure that budgeted funds are spent exclusively on the projects for which they were allocated.

Our demands:

We, as citizens and taxpayers, demand that the City of Johannesburg:

  1. Urgently prioritise and repair potholes and unsafe roads across the Metro, proper maintenance on all water and electricity infrastructure.
  2. Allocate budgets fairly and equitably, ensuring that tax-paying wards receive proper maintenance and service delivery.
  3. Implement transparent and accountable mechanisms to guarantee that funds are spent only on approved and budgeted projects.
  4. Commit to long-term maintenance plans that prevent infrastructure from reaching a state of crisis.

Our commitment:

As responsible citizens, we pay our taxes with the expectation that the City will deliver on its constitutional mandate of service delivery and infrastructure maintenance.

We demand urgent corrective action to ensure that Johannesburg does not continue to decline due to mismanagement and neglect. By signing this petition, I acknowledge that this petition will become a public document, and all the information contained in it will be publicly available.

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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.