Richard Maponya lived with the insanity of apartheid, and still managed to prosper

What can we learn from a man who was born before nylon, TV, jet engines, faxes, cordless phones, FM radio, microwaves, tape recorders, automatic gears and electric typewriters, let alone computers?

Lots. But first, something about the late great Richard Maponya’s world, and some of my personal experiences. Few people knew then, and almost no-one knows now, how insane apartheid was. Not how bad it was but how mind-bogglingly absurd. Maponya knew. With the dignity and wisdom that characterised his generation of black entrepreneurs, he survived it and prospered. ..