Word: potchefstroom
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...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...
...This frenetic scene took place late last year not in Melbourne or Adelaide but in Potchefstroom, on the high veldt near Johannesburg. Most of the kids were from nearby black townships, bussed in for a couple of hours' practice with players most had never heard of. For the kids, the meet was a chance to try a new sport. For the St. Kilda players, it was a key part of summer training. And for Australian Rules football, it was part of a push into a most unlikely market: Africa. "We think it's the best game in the world," says...
...rugby union and soccer-mad South Africa, Aussie Rules remains an oddity. At the Potchefstroom training session, one school teacher supervising his students laughs when told that Aussie Rules teams have 22 players, 18 of whom are playing at any one time. "What kind of a sport has so many players?" says Robert Noah. "It's like a miracle to us that you can get so many people on the field...
...KHAKI-CLAD AFRIKANER FARMERS WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...
Because the population of Potchefstroom, which also happens to be de Klerk's birthplace, includes a wide range of income groups, from Afrikaans-speaking farmers to English-speaking professionals, the by-election was seen as a representative test of white feeling on National Party policy...