"Maponya was chairman of the Johannesburg African Chamber of Commerce in the 1960s which brought together black business people in the city. But we saw a need for a bigger organisation representative of all black business people nationally so that they could talk in one voice.
"We even visited the ANC in exile and planned together for the future development of our economy," said Motsuenyane "He was thinking that things should be improved as far as the economy is concerned, he wasn't too happy about the state of our economy at the present time. "All of us, as business people, we are of course not entirely happy about the state of business and we should do much better in creating jobs for the young people. We are not doing very well in the area of job creation," he said.
We need not cry but praise God for his contribution in this country. Motivating us that it's never late to do anything good.
He deserves to be in books of History as a subject thought at school.
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