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...rich black entrepreneur at a time when apartheid was meant to make such a thing impossible, Richard Maponya made his name, and his fortune, subverting the established narrative. Later this month, he will buck convention once again when, opposite the wooden shack used by Dark and Lovely Barbers on Old Potchefstroom Road and an abandoned shipping container that is the workshop for P. Maone Auto Electrical Repairs, he opens a $70 million, 700,000-sq.-ft. (65,000 sq m) steel-and-glass shopping mall in Soweto...
...deal," says Michael Spicer, ceo of South Africa's Business Leadership forum, which advises government and big business on policy. "He cut his teeth at a time when it was exceptionally difficult for black Africans, and he did not do it in any facilitated way. Richard was black and rich and proud - and he did it himself. That made him one of the first black icons, a role model when there were practically none." The Little Black Book, an annual rundown of South African business leaders, calls him "the father of black retail...
...quality films from undiscovered countries. Hong Kong's vibrant action movies of the late '80s quickly captured a cult audience in Toronto, and the delirious melodramas from Bollywood announced themselves with the festival's 1994 tribute to India's director Mani Ratnam. This year, Handling is excited by the richness of Israeli films - "There's a kind of explosion of creativity there, and it's about time" - while Cowan finds a consolidation of merit from other nations. "The rich are getting richer," he says. "The Korean and Argentine cinemas continue to be intriguing. The Germans and Australians have been...
...watch their children go off to "this mess of a war in Iraq." And he's enthusiastic about all the things he'll do for these people as soon as he shuts down those rascally insiders: pass universal health care and middle-class tax relief, raise taxes on rich folks, end the war, stop global warming, rebuild labor unions, bail people out of foreclosure, and let's not forget highways and bridges and "college for everyone" and an antitrust investigation...
...Here's what would truly be hypocritical: if Edwards spoke out on behalf of the disadvantaged while pushing policies that benefit the rich. This he does not do. He favors boosting the capital-gains tax rate for families earning over $250,000 and closing the loophole that allows fund managers-like those at Fortress Investment Group, where he earned almost $500,000 in 2006-to get taxed at just 15%. "He wants to take money away from the people who paid him," says deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince. "That's not hypocrisy. That's sincerity...