Makwapa's rags-to-riches odyssey

Makwapa
Makwapa

PALAPYE: Stories of rags-to -riches cannot be finished without mention of one by Palapye-based businessman Nonofo Makwapa.

 

For over four decades or blood, sweat and tears, Makwapa masterfully built a family business brand that started off with all the hallmarks of humble beginnings: a rickety 4X4  mobile tuck shop in the middle of a then still very much backward  Palapye village.

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