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'Vehicles scattered along the road' – 4 killed in N1 accident outside Joburg

Johannesburg in the news:

  1. 'Vehicles scattered along the road' – 4 killed in N1 accident outside Joburg: Trucks and two buses were among the vehicles involved in a collision which left four people dead on the N1 highway south of Johannesburg on … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  2. 4 dead, at least 20 others injured in N1 multi-vehicle collision: JOHANNESBURG – Four people were killed on Sunday morning in a multi-vehicle collision on the N1 highway in Johannesburg. It's understood the … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  3. PICS: Four dead, 22 injured in N1 pile-up near Joburg: JOHANNESBURG – Four people died and 22 people were injured, two critically, when several vehicles were involved in a pile-up in what is believed … – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  4. Four killed in horrific Grasmere car crash: JOHANNESBURG – Four people have been declared dead after a horrific car crash on the N1 North near Grasmere on Sunday morning. – Google Alert – Johannesburg
  5. Watch: Hollywood great Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked by man at sports event in SA: Johannesburg: Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger was attacked on Saturday by a man who kicked him in the back at a sports event in South … – Google Alert – Johannesburg

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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.