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Johannesburg in the news:

  1. Pakistan To Send Cricket Teams To South Africa, Zimbabwe By Chartered Flight: Pakistan is due to tour South Africa from late March to play ODIs and T20 Internationals in Johannesburg and Centurion and later fly to Harare for a Test and ODI series against Zimbabwe. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Google to evaluate executive performance on diversity, inclusion: Alphabet Inc’s Google will evaluate the performance of its vice presidents and above on team diversity and inclusion starting this year, the company said on Friday in one of several responses to … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Alleged accomplice in Tshegofatso Pule’s murder to appear in court on Monday: Gauteng police say the 32-year-old man arrested for allegedly being an accomplice in the murder of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule will appear in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court west of Johannesburg on … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. SAPS seize unregistered Ivermectin tablets worth R126m at OR Tambo Airport: Police said the discovery was made by authorities during an inspection of a cargo container sent to South Africa from India. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Fifa sets East Africa Regional Development Office in Kigali, Rwanda: Fifa has set a Regional Development Office in Kigali, Rwanda in their bid to boost their long-term development of football in the East African region. Fifa president Gianni Infantino oversaw the … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Sophiatown was originally part of the farm Waterval. In 1897 the speculator Hermann Tobiansky acquired a 237-acre portion of the farm, which was situated about four miles or so west of the centre of Johannesburg. In 1903 he had some of the land surveyed as leasehold township, divided into almost 1700 small stands. The township was named after Tobiansky’s wife, Sophia, and some of the streets were named after his children Toby, Gerty, Bertha and Victoria. Blacks started acquiring land in Sophiatown.

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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.