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Gauteng Provincial Congress Results

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Gauteng Provincial Congress Results:

Dear Editor

It gives us great pleasure to announce the results of the DA Gauteng Provincial Congress election, which took place today, 12 August 2023.

Voting for the contested positions took place using the online OpaVote system. This system ensures that voting can be done in a speedy, but reliable manner. These results are consequently the product of an election that was compliant with all of the DA election rules and requirements.

As presiding officers, we can therefore say that today’s election was free and fair.

Gauteng is a battleground province, and heading into the 2024 Elections the elected provincial leadership will play a vital role to help rescue this province. Gauteng deserves democracy, and today, the province got just that.

We would also like to thank the nearly 800 delegates who made their way to Congress, not only were your voices heard, but you chartered the course the party will take. This is what democracy looks like.

The results of the elections are as follows:

  • Provincial Leader: Solly Msimanga
  • Provincial Chairperson: Fred Nel
  • Deputy Provincial Chairperson: Pogiso Mthumunye

Regards

Werner Horn MP
Presiding Officer

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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.