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Sitting in his majestic home in northern Johannesburg, Richard Maponya tells a story. After building up a retail empire in the 1960s and 1970s, South Africa's first black tycoon fought for six years to become a racehorse owner when the Jockey Club of Southern Africa (now known as the National Horseracing Authority) was a white-only bastion. But once he was admitted (after a lengthy legal battle), he couldn't resist the temptation to needle his adversaries. "I called my first horse Another Color," the 80-year-old Maponya recalls. "On his third time out, Another Color came scorching...
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...asked what he makes of Zuma's economic policy, a prominent South African CEO sighs: "I don't think he has one." Zuma dismisses such critics. "The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma," the candidate said in an interview at his home in Johannesburg earlier this year. "They think Zuma is one of them. The minority has problems [and] is more vocal. [But] I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority says, 'Zuma, do this,' I will...
...troops killed as many as 20,000 people while he was in the process of securing his absolute power over the nation. I hope that the International Court of Justice will investigate. Mugabe has become so mentally deficient as to be permanently incapable of rational conduct. Mike Faure, Johannesburg...
...troops killed as many as 20,000 people while he was in the process of securing his absolute power over the nation. I hope that the International Court of Justice will investigate. Mugabe has become so mentally deficient as to be permanently incapable of rational conduct. Mike Faure, JOHANNESBURG A Debate on Teens John Cloud's reassuring article about the current state of American teens [April 9], in which he discussed my upcoming book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, bordered on the irresponsible. Each year more than 2 million U.S. adolescents attempt suicide, legal...