How Sandile Shezi became South Africa’s youngest multi-millionaire at 23

In 2015, Sandile Shezi came out from nowhere to become South Africa’s youngest self-made millionaire with a current networth of $2.3million USD. Sandile Shezi is another proof that with today’s technology, almost anyone, irrespective of background, can achieve great success.

Coming from a very humble background, Sandile Shezi began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 12, by selling muffins and used clothes from door to door.

Just like many young entrepreneurs, Sandile Shezi was mocked by his peers, for his lowly side gig, but unlike most young people, he resisted the mockery, and continued his small business.

Concerning this phase of his life, Sandile Shezi said that, the mockery and rejection, only provided extra motivation for him to succeed. Successful people finds a way to master rejection and use it to their own advantage, the fear of rejection and people’s opinion, is a major reason why many people never succeed.

Fortunately, people’s opinion about you or about what you do, is really trash. It doesn’t matter. It is usually people who are not doing anything meaningful in their life, that have the time for hating and negative criticism, Their dreams are already crushed, and so they subconsciously bad mouth everything and everybody looking for other people’s dream to crush. So never let haters remove a hair from your body. They are not worth it.

Sandile Shezi continued his side business until he entered Durban University of Technology. Soon, he learnt about the risky business of forex trading.

Global forex is the largest financial market in the world, trading non-stop from Beijing to London and New York around the clock, with over US$4 TRILLION changing hands every day on volatile and risky currency markets. With most trading done by banks and big corporations, it takes guts, skill and a bit of luck to tackle the market as a single investor.

Shezi admits that investment is risky, but with the right mindset and a little training in what to look for in the markets, anyone can do it. He started small with the proceeds from his muffin business, but by his 3rd year in the university, he believed he has mastered the art of Forex trading and decided to gamble heavily.

So without his parent’s knowledge, Sandile Shezi dropped out of University, and invested his entire tuition fee into forex trading ! He later admitted that this was a very big risk and that he will never advice young people to try what he did then in his naivety, but fortunately for him, his gamble paid off big time, and he quickly saw enormous success in the forex market, which immediately catapulted him from nowhere, to a net worth of roughly $2.3 million dollars ( that’s over N700 million naira ).

To appease his parents, he returned back to school and finished his program, and also did a program in global leadership at the prestigious Harvard University.