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Lehlohonolo Peter Adonisi was born in Alberton. He was raised in the township of Katlehong in the East Rand by his grandparents and a single mother, Lisebo Martha Adonisi. He began his primary schooling at Matshidiso Primary school, and then did his standard 6 at Sijabulile high School. “I attended school during the riots in South Africa and this led me to adopt delinquent behaviour thus my family sent me to Swaziland to complete my high schooling at Emanzini Ka Mmankanyane High School,” he said.

After spending one year at Emanzini Ka Mmankanyane high school, Adonisi was sent back to South Africa again because of ill-discipline. “I eventually matriculated with a university entrance qualification at Alafang High School. Although I had never thought of what I wanted to be, I registered for Law as it was popular and as they say, the rest is history,” he said.

Adonisi is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has been acting as a Small Claims Court Commissioner for Germiston since 2008. He started his own Law firm immediately after his admission in October 2002. “I now run two legal businesses, Adonisi Inc Attorneys where I am a Director and Keletlotlo Business Consultancy where I am a Senior Consultant,” he said. Adds Adonisi: “I want to see my business being involved in multi-transactions. However, as a transactional advisor, I’d like to continue offering services to my small, medium and loyal clients,” he said.

“In retrospect, I have done extremely well in my career. But the most significant moment of my career has to be the time I won my first court case, ” he said while adding that now he is used to popular customers such as celebrities and politicians. Adonisi says he could not escape entrepreneurship because he was raised by entrepreneurs. “My mother and grandparents were entrepreneurs. My grandparents were extra ordinary people, my paternal grandfather owned a butchery and a bottle store; they were very successful in their own right.”

“Growing up, they always encouraged me to lend a helping hand in their businesses thus my business skills were horned from an early age. I even started my own small business selling ice cream and using my bicycle as a mode of transport,” he said.

Adds Adonisi: “The matriarchal side of my family has also been a huge influence in my life. My mother, Lisebo Martha Adonisi, moulded me into who I am today while my grandmother Lucy Motloung, taught me politics and how to become self sufficient,” he said.

Furthermore, he says his business partner Dr Mathapelo Matsaneng has been an inspiration. “She gives me comfort even in difficult times, where anxiety wants to take over, she keeps me under control and assists in problem solving. She is a skilled, respectful intellectual with a good heart,” he explained. According to Adonisi, successful businesses are not built over night hence he believes that aspiring entrepreneurs need to have a strategy in place.

He believes in having influencers as opposed to having role models. “These influencers are people who live and work with me who individually contributed to some part of my personal development,” he said.

With the level of success that he has managed to accomplish, Adonisi still dreams big. “I’d like to see my business grow beyond this- having good infrastructure and personnel that helps to achieve the end goal and are equally hard driven,” he said