Thapelo Maphoto, who owns a car-repair shop in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, is sad but not surprised that South Africa’s main opposition party has lost its first black leader.   Mmusi Maimane, the Soweto-born pastor who quit the Democratic Alliance (DA) last week after months of
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