Maponya Mall is a
shopping centre
A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...
in
Soweto
Soweto () is a Township (South Africa), township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western T ...
,
Pimville,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
. The 65,000 square-metre development cost R650m to build and officially opened in September 2007. The
mall was owned by South African entrepreneur and property developer
Richard Maponya until his death in early January 2020 under The Maponya group in partnership with
Investec and ZenProp property holdings.
See also
Richard Maponya
References
External links
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Shopping centres in Soweto
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