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S.Africa’s Woolworths expects first-half profit to soar as retail demand improves | MyJHB.co.za

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. S.Africa’s Woolworths expects first-half profit to soar as retail demand improves: South African retailer Woolworths Holdings Ltd said on Monday it expected its first-half headline earnings per share (HEPS) to jump 50-60%, boosted by improved business environment in the final six … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. Jackson Mthembu’s memorial service to be held today in Pretoria: The memorial service of the late Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu will be held on Monday in Pretoria. Mthembu succumbed to COVID-19 last week, a few days after he was admitted to hospital. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Persistance of poverty betrays memory of Mam’Dube: January 25 2021, marks 104 years since the departure from the land of the living of Ms Nokutelela Dube (neé Mdima). – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Indian National Congress: According to Biography.com Nelson Mandela ws born on July 18,1918 in Mveso,Transkei South Africa.Becoming actively involved I anti-apartheid movement in his 20s,Mandela joined the African National … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Mr Price reports record market share growth after strong retail sales: Mr Price posted strong retail sales and reported its biggest market share growth on record during the half year ended December 2020. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? Johannesburg is more than 130 years old: The city was founded on the 4th of October 1886. It’s one of the youngest world cities though.

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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.