Soweto entrepreneur a role model

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• Maponya owns supermarkets and car dealerships and Soweto's biggest mall
  
• Maponya studied to be a teacher, the highest aspiration for a black in 1940s
  
• Maponya got help from a lawyer, Nelson Mandela, who got him a trader's permit
  
• It took Maponya 28 years to get banks and partners to build Maponya Mall
  
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