Ramachandran Ottapathu arrived in Botswana with BWP200 and built a $40 million retail empire
Billionaires Africa | 25.06.2026 22:51
In 1992, a quiet young man from a small town in Kerala showed up at Wayside Supermarket in Lobatse, a border town in southeastern Botswana about an hour's drive from Johannesburg, with BWP200 in his pocket and a chartered accountancy qualification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
