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Madhvani empire marks 100 years
Nile Breweries in Jinja, one of the companies in which Madhvani had a stake before a takeover in 2002 by South Africa’s SAB Miller. The Madhvanis’ business empire covers energy, aviation, tourism and software development. File
Mark Antony in Julius Caesar asserts that “The evil that men do lives after them and the good is often interred with their bones.” An Indian Ugandan-turned businessman, entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist, Muljibhai Prabhudas Madhvani’s good could have eluded those who wrapped his bones.
It is 100 years since the 18-year-old hatched a business that now employs more than 7,000 people. In the 19th century under colonial rule Indians were dispatched to Africa to aid the construction of the famed “Lunatic Express” railway line from the port town of Mombasa to the River Nile in Uganda.
