Prison can set you on the road to success
Prison can set you on the road to success
VUT Alumnus, author, businessman and Founder-Mr Tshepiso Dumasi
Puleng Maphisa
Proud Vaal University of Technology (VUT) Alumnus Tshepiso Dumasi is an author and a successful businessman who also founded the Tshepiso Dumasi Foundation.
He holds a Master’s in Business Administration and a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and is currently studying B-Comm Economics with UNISA while heading up an international organisation.
Mr Dumasi is known for his brilliant mind and manners and has worked extensively around Africa in Zambia, Malawi, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria.
He also spent time in prison after being arrested for car theft. It is an experience that he is very thankful for as he says it turned his life around.
He has just launched his first book Uncovered which is about leadership styles and how he has achieved the success he enjoys today.
He was once a teenager who lacked a father figure, leaders and role models in his community and spiritual enlightenment. All of these things lead him to make the wrong choices at the age of 18 years when he kept the company of young people who had no vision.
“We have everything we need to succeed; however we lack leaders with a purpose who can outline a vision and execute it. Anyone reading my book will understand that I touched on leadership not only regarding leading people but leadership in its entirety, including self-leadership. We need to transform the mind of an African and remind ourselves that we can be great leaders,” he said.
He believes that leadership has everything to do with discovering purpose and finding out how to help others.
Through his foundation, he helps develop young boys to be visionary leaders, to inspire them to see value in themselves and to positively impact society.
The father and husband said that Uncovered is not his first or last baby and that he will continue writing about leadership until African mindsets are changed.
He further said he would be doing wrong if he didn’t appreciate people who aroused the leader within him: “I have always been a sales and marketing junkie and I am grateful that I had excellent lecturers such as Ms Kediemetse Mokotsi, Professor Ayesha Bevan-Dye and Professor Roy Dhurup to mention a few. They nurtured my skills. Above all I thank God and my family, especially my wife Seapehi Dumasi for believing in me when I had lost hope. I am what I am today because of her.”
