Richard Maponya
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Maponya’s African dream
By working with neighbours, business tycoon Richard Maponya managed to get around oppressive laws and create an empire
Soweto to get R40-million Toyota facility
Toyota South Africa Motors has said it is constructing a R40-million facility in Soweto.
Zuma: Don’t throw away your vote
President Jacob Zuma urged thousands of ANC supporters in Soweto not to "throw away their vote" during the May 18 local government elections.
A giant in the making
Three years ago Gauteng administrators asked a group of really smart people to look into the economic potential of Soweto.
Recipients named for 2008 national orders
Awards will be bestowed on a musician, a judge and a former chief of state of protocol, Billy Modise, during next week’s 11th national orders ceremony. Modise, United States…
PSL tills ring with moolah
The worst Premier Soccer League side will, at the end of this season, have made at least R12,7-million in revenue. And if one club were to be dominant and win all the trophies on…
Soweto’s Maponya Mall a ‘radical reconstruction’
As you enter the gates of Soweto’s biggest shopping mall, you are welcomed by a majestic statue of an elephant. The elephant is seen to represent Richard Maponya as being part of…
Business booms in Soweto
The construction cranes towering and the cacophony of concrete churning and trucks rumbling are the sights and sounds of a business boom in South Africa’s most famous township.…
Maponya Mall: ‘Everything I want under one roof’
Soweto, the vast township that was synonymous with neglect and revolt during apartheid, will become home to one of South Africa’s largest shopping malls this week when one of the…