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Pakistan team to leave for South Africa after squad tests negative for COVID-19

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Pakistan team to leave for South Africa after squad tests negative for COVID-19: A thirty-five member Pakistan cricket team will depart for Johannesburg, South Africa tomorrow (Friday) after all members of the squad tested negative for the coronavirus. According to Pakistan … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Despite postponement, Mkhwebane looking forward to ruling in perjury matter: Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News. JOHANNESBURG – While it was the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that requested a postponement, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was happy that a … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. South Africa’s top court hears bid to jail ‘cynical’ Zuma for contempt: “In his failure to comply, he also adopted a belligerent and defiant tone,” the lawyer told the top court in Johannesburg. Ngcukaitobi said the 78-year-old must be jailed for contempt of court … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. FEDHASA & SATSA – Lions Tour Green Light Bodes Well for the Tourism Industry: and eagerly awaits clarity on whether spectators will be permitted at stadiums for the upcoming tests in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The economic and job creation benefits of hosting the event in … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Indian Consulate General in S Africa partners with UP to boost tourism to India: The Consulate General of India here has partnered with Uttar Pradesh to boost tourism to India post COVID-19, highlighting the state’s various religious sites and other attractions.     Mukesh Kumar … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?

Did you know this about Johannesburg? The enormous Carlton Centre, built at a cost of R88 million, contained a fifty-storey office tower, the thirty-storey luxury Carlton Hotel, a five-storey Garlicks department store, three-and-a-half-acre public plaza with a two-story underground shopping centre beneath it and parking garages with space for 2000 cars. The Carlton Hotel (Johannesburg) opened for business on October 1, 1972.

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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.