First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. The residents of Pimville have taken a stand against the mass lootings and have vowed to protect Maponya Mall. It is an around-the-clock ...

Maponya Mall, being the original pride and joy of Soweto, envisioned by Dr Richard Maponya, has been a mall of many firsts for the community and the first premium black-owned mall in South Africa ...

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 the “big five” of ...

An agreement has been reached for e-hailing drivers and minibus taxi operators to coexist at Soweto's Maponya Mall, says Gauteng transport MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela. A threatened seven-day shutdown ...

Onlookers allege there was a mob that ran after a taxi driving slowly through the barricaded road. The incident comes after two e-hailing cars were torched on Wednesday night. A taxi has been torched ...

Dr Richard Maponya who passed away on Monday at the age of 99, will be remembered as a pioneering entrepreneur who saw past obstacles and defied an oppressive system when doing so was unthinkable. Dr ...

Diale-Tlabela visited Maponya Mall on Monday, 18 August 2025, in a bid to resolve tensions between the community, taxi drivers and e-hailing operators. Last week, an e-hailing driver was shot dead, ...

Soweto residents blocked roads with rocks near the Maponya Mall on 14 August 2025 after an e-hailing driver was killed at the mall on 13 August 2025. Picture: Jabulile Mbatha/EWN JOHANNESBURG - ...

Flames engulf one of the e-hailing vehicles attacked at Maponya Mall. (Photo: Facebook Mphole Mogapi) One person has been fatally shot and two others injured after a violent attack on e-hailing ...

Professor Tshilidzi Marwala is the seventh Rector of the United Nations (UN) University and UN Under Secretary-General. As I pondered about the passing of Richard Maponya and struggled for ...