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Feeding the Hungry

Haval
Haval Cares for South Africa

On Tuesday 12th May, with assistance from Boxer Super Stores Alexandra, Haval and Rays of Hope distributed 152 nutritious Food Parcels into Alexandra. Each food parcel will feed a family of 5 for a month and included essential food items like rice, cake flour, maize meal, samp, oil and more.

Keeping vulnerable people fed amid this pandemic is of utmost importance.

Haval would like to thank Rays of Hope and every hand involved in feeding and ensuring 152 families remain well-nourished during this time.

Haval first made its way onto South African streets in 2017 and has proved itself from South Africa’s toughest terrain to the urban streets. Haval is GWM’s professional SUV brand, dedicated to the development of SUV specialization. Their integration of leading global suppliers ensures Haval is constantly being refined to produce a top-quality driving experience.

Considering the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, the Haval Family have identified the threatening food crisis of unprecedented magnitude for all vulnerable South Africans. Due to the crucial need for food that the urban townships face, Haval jumped at the opportunity to reach out and help desperate and starving South Africans in dire need.

Haval recognises that food security is an essential measure that must be taken seriously and is a priority for our country. Because of the recent National Lockdown, many South Africans are unsure of where to find their next meal. With the rapid increase of hunger in vulnerable areas, improving the availability of nutritious food is of utmost importance.

With Alexandra being on the doorstep of Haval’s HQ, they identified this community as being deeply affected during the global crisis and a dire need for food security.

Thus, Haval reached out to Rays of Hope as their partner on the ground to distribute food parcels into Alexandra.

Rays of Hope is a non-profit company and a public benefit organisation in the heart of Alexandra, that manages several social outreach projects. Rays of Hope began operating in 1991 and has grown to a network of seven community-based projects. Their values remain committed to Sustainability, partnership, reconciliation and “loving your neighbour”. Through developing long-term sustainable relationships, they help to improve all aspects of people’s lives to bring about lasting change in Alexandra.

For the world to recover safely and prosper, we must work together with resilience

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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.