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Emirates Has Round-Trip International Deals Starting as Low as $449

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Emirates Has Round-Trip International Deals Starting as Low as 9: Deals are available on both economy and business class departures to popular spots like Milan, Athens, Johannesburg, Dubai, and Bangkok. – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. City of Joburg: No shutdown of emergency services to Cosmo City: The City of Johannesburg's public safety department said there was no shutdown in the provision of emergency services delivered by city ambulances … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. South African Airways to fly new Airbus A350-900 on New York-Johannesburg route: “We are thrilled to soon have the state-of-the-art Airbus A350-900 operating daily on the New York JFK-Johannesburg route,” said Todd Neuman, … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Control of South African Cities in Play as Opposition Feuds: The DA and EFF teamed up to wrest control of the Tshwane municipality, which includes the capital, Pretoria, and Johannesburg, the economic hub, … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. Renowned South African Artist David Koloane Passed Away, Aged 81: It is with great sadness that we announce David Koloane has died, aged 81. He passed away last night at his home in Johannesburg. David Koloane … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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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.