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Disgruntled doctors set deadline for Discovery to respond to grievances

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Disgruntled doctors set deadline for Discovery to respond to grievances: JOHANNESBURG – Disgruntled doctors have given medical aid giant Discovery a week to respond to their grievances. They marched on Discovery's … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. Truck driver sustains serious burn wounds after petrol bomb attack: JOHANNESBURG – A truck driver has sustained serious burn wounds after his truck was set alight along the N1, outside of Touws River. The man … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. Family mulls taking legal action against GP health for patient negligence: JOHANNESBURG – The family of Martha Marais says they are considering taking legal action against the Gauteng Health department and Mamelodi … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Springboks rocked by Eben Etzebeth World Cup injury scare: It appears that the 27-year-old lock may have 'broken his hand' during the side's 22-41 Super Rugby defeat to the Lions in Johannesburg on Saturday. – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. City of Joburg was not pressured into Afrirent tender, report finds: Johannesburg – A forensic report has detailed how the City of Joburg was not politically obliged nor was it pressured to award a R1.2billion tender to … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Johannesburg’s traffic is brutal: According to figures released earlier in 2018, the city is the 2nd most congested city in South Africa (behind Cape Town). It’s the 44th most congested city globally. Johannesburg residents spent an average of 46 hours in peak traffic in 2017. The city has more than 7500 km of roads.

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Top Star Drive-In: The Cinema on the Mountain of Gold

The Ferreira Dump began growing in the late 1800s, composed of the crushed rock and chemical residue left over after early, inefficient mining processes had extracted as much gold as the technology of the time allowed. By the 1960s, it was a flat-topped, man-made mesa overlooking the city. In a stroke of entrepreneurial genius, the surface was tarred and the Top Star Drive-In was opened. It quickly became a South African institution. Its appeal was not just the movies, but the unparalleled view: as the sun set, the massive white screen would flicker to life against a backdrop of the glowing skyscrapers of the Central Business District, separated from the viewer only by the elevated M2 highway.

In the decades before television arrived in South Africa (1976), the Top Star was a primary social hub. It was a democratic space in an undemocratic time; while the city below was strictly segregated, the “car” served as a private bubble that allowed a degree of social freedom not found in traditional theaters. For many Johannesburgers, the Top Star was a site of nostalgic rites of passage—first dates, family outings where children were piled into the back of station wagons with blankets and flasks of tea, and the Saturday “car market” where the parking lot transformed into a sprawling hub for buying and selling second-hand vehicles.