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 ...

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 ...

Headline: Maponya Mall celebrates the strength and resilience of women at its Mother’s Day concert Teaser: This was the mall's first concert celebrating mothers and treating them to a day filled with ...

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 ...

This comes after 27-year-old e-hailing driver, Mthokozisi Mvelase, was shot and killed outside the shopping centre before his and another car was torched last week. The Gauteng Roads and Transport ...

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, ...

The new 3500m 2 Woolworths will offer Soweto residents virtually everything they would expect to find at a top-line Woolworths store, from top-of-the-range W Collection men's and women's clothing and ...