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Maponya Mall
A view in and around Maponya Mall and more in Soweto, South Africa. Recorded on September 1 and 2, 2008 using a Flip Video camcorder.
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Soweto millionaire a role model for black business people
AP Television
Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 September 2008
1. Wide set up Richard Maponya, South African businessman, standing in garden with his family
2. Various of Maponya talking to his daughter
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Maponya, South African businessman:
I got an offer from an industrialist who wanted an educated black man to look after a departmental store, the stocks of a departmental store, and I went for an interview and I found that they are actually paying me four times if not more, more than what teaching was paying me.
4. Various of Maponya looking at a painting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Maponya, South African businessman:
I thought a was I going to start the first retail clothing store in Soweto, but when I made an application the powers that be, they said to me 'you are dreaming, there is no black man who is supposed to be in business here, you are all here to serve industry.' And I then went to (Nelson) Mandela (Oliver) Tambo attorneys and asked them to assist me getting a license.
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FILE: Soweto, South Africa, 18 September 2007
6. Wide of Nelson Mandela, former President South Africa, and Maponya cutting a ribbon at the official opening of the Maponya Mall, the largest mall in Soweto
7. Cutaway media
8. UPSOUND: (English) Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa:
With this action we declare this Mall open.
9. Wide Mandela and Maponya shaking hands
AP Television
Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 September 2008
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Maponya, South African businessman:
We need more business people to create more job opportunities. There is lot of poverty in our country and the only way we could address this poverty is by us creating a middle class. And as this middle class grows, it pulls other people who are down the ground to the level where they could have a subsistence type of a living.
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FILE: Soweto, South Africa, 18 September 2007
11. Wide exterior Maponya Mall, bulldozer driving past
12. Close up wall sign reading Maponya Mall
13. Exterior of Maponya Mall
14. Wide of Soweto township, with cooling tower
15. Wide of Soweto township
STORYLINE:
When Richard Maponya did well as a clothes salesman, his white boss could not promote him under the rules of apartheid.
So the boss offered instead to sell Maponya damaged clothes for cheap. Maponya resold the clothes after work and on weekends, and earned enough to go into business himself.
Today, the 81-year-old owns supermarkets and car dealerships, as well as the biggest mall in Soweto.
Maponya is the most prominent in a small club of early black business people who have proved what an important role black entrepreneurship can play in building post-Apartheid South Africa. Yet his success also stands out for how rare it is in a country where a quarter of the workforce, most of it black, is unemployed, and most blacks still struggle in poverty 14 years after white rule ended.
Maponya showed early signs of entrepreneurial instincts. As a boy, he dammed a stream in the northern South African hills where his family raised dairy cattle, drew water from his pool for a vegetable plot, then sold the cabbages and tomatoes to earn extra money.
Yet he did not at first consider a career in business. He studied to be a teacher, about as high an aspiration as a black South African could have had in the 1940s.
He arrived in Johannesburg a 24-year-old graduate of a teaching college in 1950, a year after the white government adopted a series of laws to keep the races apart and blacks in servitude. Maponya had a contract to teach in Alexandra, a neighbourhood of middle-class black homeowners, until the government began stripping them of their property rights in the 1960s.
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Maponya Mall
the first regional shopping mall in Soweto with over 200 shops including McDonald, Pick 'n Pay, Woolworths, Toys r Us, KFC, Nandos etc
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Attempted robbery at Pick n Pay, Maponya Mall
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A new shopping mall indicates Soweto's economy is booming
Soweto - September 2007
1. Wide of sunrise
2. Mid of sun
3. Close up of sign
4. Wide of Soweto
5. Wide of construction site
6. Wide of street scene
7. Mid of people walking
8. Wide of market
9. Wide of cooling tower which used to supply of the electricity to the whole of Soweto
10. Wide of Soweto
11. Various of construction site
12. Close up of sign of Maponya Mall
13. Various of construction site
14. Set up
15. SOUNDBITE : (English) Richard Maponya, Entrepreneur
At plus or minus, five million people living there. And I thought, look these people, they have contributed in making this beautiful city in what it looks like. And I thought they definitely deserve a better environment to live in. And they should have all kinds of facilities, such as what we see in the so called urban areas.
16. Cutaway
17. SOUNDBITE : (English) Richard Maponya, Entrepreneur
I'm so grateful that Soweto is definitely booming today. We would like to see the money our people pull in, to circulate in Soweto seven or eight times, before it goes out of the area. And this will help to upgrade the area, and the quality of life of our people will definitely be better than ever before.
18. Various of construction site
19. Various of men working on interior of mall
20. Wide of another mall in Soweto called Protea Garden
21. Various of Protea Garden
22. Various of local shops
23. Woman at fruit stall
24. SOUNDBITE : (English) Doris Makhetha, A store owner in Soweto
They've already made us suffer. Because now we find that the business we used to make before, is not what we are doing at the moment. Now we are just getting drips and drips of people coming from the Mosque, who are coming just to buy essentials like milk, sugar, in the evenings. During the day it's quiet, as you can see now.
25. Various of empty shop
26. SOUNDBITE : (English) Patrick Siswana, a store owner in Soweto
I think that for the rest of six months, people will be going there. They will be interested in buying there, maybe what is there. We're very much affected. Other parts, as I feel, maybe it makes the richer more richer, the poor goes very poor.
27. Various of construction of Holiday Inn Soweto
28. Various of business summit
29. SOUNDBITE : (English) Goolam Ballim, Chief Economist at the Standard Bank
I think that business can be made, and that if you kind of ignore, mainstream businesses kind of ignore Soweto, I would say they do it at their peril. So in sum, a few people are getting, I don't want to say wealthier, maybe not the optimal word, but poverty in the township is declining.
30. Setup Jason Ngobeni, Executive Director for Department of Economic Development
31. SOUNDBITE : (English) Jason Ngobeni, Executive Director for Department of Economic Development
I think that government has realised that the people of Soweto have got a buying power. And most of that buying power has been directed to the suburban areas, the CBDs. And it only makes sense for the people of Soweto and business of Soweto to grow their local businesses.
32. Wide of traffic
33. Various of sunset
LEAD IN :
Soweto is the most populous black urban residential area in South Africa with about 1 million people, nearly a third of Johannesburg's total population.
The South African economy has seen growth in the last four years of 5 percent, the highest in 20 years.
And that means there is an emerging middle class in the township, best known for its links to the anti-apartheid movement.
The opening of a new super mall in Soweto today (September 27, 2007) means they will be able to spend their disposable income to the benefit of local businesses.
STORYLINE:
Massive infrastructure projects have seen roads tarred and electricity installed.
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Dr Richard Maponya Funeral Service Highlights @ UJ Hall in Soweto | Rest In Peace Dr Richard Maponya
Businessman, father and mentor to many across Africa has passsed on , his funeral service was held at University of Johannesburg in Soweto today. He was loved by many and was famously known for his huge mall named after his surname (Maponya Mall). We wish his spirit to find peace and his family to gain closure. Rest in Peace Dr Richard Maponya.
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New shopping centre sign of township's booming economy
1. Entrepreneur Richard Maponya arriving at shopping centre
2. Wide of main entrance
3. Mid of Maponya's daughter kissing him
4. Various of guests
5. Long shot of former South African President Nelson Mandela getting out of car
6. Various of Mandela walking
7. Cutaway of media
8. Mandela shaking hands with Maponya
9. Wide of Mandela sitting down
10. Mid of Mandela seated
11. Cutaway of media
12. Cutaway of people listening
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Maponya, Entrepreneur:
Today people of Soweto, the rainbow nation of South Africa, I am delivering to you Maponya Mall, one of the best malls that was ever build, the best mall in South Africa.
14. Various of people listening
15. Mid of statue inspired by an iconic photograph of a dying Hector Pieterson, the youngest victim of the 1976 Soweto student uprising against apartheid
16. Close of Mandela listening
17. Wide of Mandela about to cut ribbon
18. Maponya's daughter
19. Mandela cutting ribbon
20. Media
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela, Former South African President:
Well, with this action we declare the mall open.
22. Mandela and Maponya shaking hands
STORYLINE:
Former President Nelson Mandela opened a shopping centre on Thursday in Soweto, amid booming business in South Africa's best known township.
The Maponya Mall, a 65-thousand-square-metre, 650 (m) million rand (86 (m) million US dollar) project was developed by Richard Maponya, one of Soweto's oldest entrepreneurs.
Today people of Soweto, the rainbow nation of South Africa, I am delivering to you Maponya Mall, one of the best malls that was ever build, the best mall in South Africa, Maponya said at the opening.
Inside the mall is a statue inspired by an iconic photograph of a dying Hector Pieterson, the youngest victim of the 1976 Soweto student uprising against apartheid.
Maponya spoke about how he battled to access business financing as he tried to build up a career as an entrepreneur.
While most welcomed the arrival of the malls, there have been casualties of the boom - those small local shops that served their communities for years but have been unable to compete with the large retailers.
Others were more upbeat, focusing on what the malls bring: jobs, cheaper prices and an end to trips into the city centre to buy anything other than the most basic of groceries.
Soweto is the most populous black urban residential area in the country with about 1 million people, nearly a third of Johannesburg's total population.
Its cosmopolitan community has defined black urban style in South Africa.
Soweto now has its own wine festival, was a venue for this year's SA Fashion Week and last weekend hosted an international breakdancing competition.
Soweto was created in the early 1960s by the apartheid government to house the labourers, most of them black, who worked in the mines and other industries in the city.
Many families were also settled there after they were forced out of their homes in areas declared only for white residents.
It has been home to some of the country's most important political figures, such as Mandela and fellow Nobel peace prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
In an acknowledgment of its importance, city officials have invested heavily in Soweto's development.
It has become on of Johannesburg's most marketable tourist attractions, drawing numerous tours. Sites associated with the history of the anti-apartheid movement have been upgraded.
Proprietors of a handful of Soweto guest houses are hoping to cash in on the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
The South African economy has seen growth in the last four years of 5 percent, the highest in 20 years.
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Soweto residents respond to Maponya Mall, Soweto
Ghetto Radio: How do you feel about the mall?
Lady with a red cap: I feel right because it is near for us and everything is here. Pick n Pay food, and it's cheaper than having to go to town.
Attempted robbery at Maponya Mall
A group of seven men tried to rob a supermarket at Maponya mall in Soweto on Wednesday morning. Police say the robbers came through the back of the supermarket where workers were about to report for duty. The robbers and security guards exchanged shots, before the men fled, firing randomly. For the latest, we are joined on the line by Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela....
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Top 10 Greatest Shopping center of Africa
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