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Warnie’s magic, perfect Ponting and a squash ball: Gilly on Australia’s World Cup hat-trick

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news:

  1. Warnie’s magic, perfect Ponting and a squash ball: Gilly on Australia’s World Cup hat-trick: Only one team in history has won the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup three times in a row. On the anniversary of Australia’s third successive World Cup win, we caught up with Adam Gilchrist to reminisce … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  2. 2013 Video Shows NRA’s Top Gun Botching Elephant Killing: Newly discovered footage shows chief executive Wayne LaPierre firing four shots at the animal before someone else takes over and finishes the kill. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  3. Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing: Connecting Aroma with A.I.: Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing introduces Aroma Kiosk, a ground-breaking new digital sensory insights tool to connect with consumers in dynamic environments such as grocery and department stores, … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  4. Akani Simbine to captain SA team at World Athletics Relay Championships: Akani Simbine leads a national team of 10 athletes as captain to the World Athletics Relay Championships to be hosted in Poland from 1-2 May. – “Johannesburg” – BingNews
  5. Citizens deliver Freedom Day messages at Johannesburg’s Constitution Square: On the eve of Freedom Day, more than 250 declarations from across the country were projected on to the light towers of Constitution Square in Johannesburg. The declarations came with the rule of law … – “Johannesburg” – BingNews

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Did you know this about Johannesburg? There is also a Johannesburg in California, although it only has a population of 176 people (2000 census). It was named by miners who had worked in the gold mines of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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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.