Black tax wasn't always "tax", it was a way of looking after the tribe and has its roots in compassion, love and wisdom on how to get out of poverty.
It's a way of paying it forward and is not unique to African people, it's practised in Asia and other ethnic communities.
The idea is simple - families need to get ahead - so the eldest or the smartest child in the family, whoever shows the most potential, would be educated...
I now realise that men often find empath fempreneurs fascinating, like most women I suppose, but this fascination, if its not driven by genuine love, oven often makes leads men to want to Own us, Control us or tame the fire they see burning in us.
I’m currently a high school math teacher and I recently paid off US$25,000 in 15 months.
Yes, you read that right.
I put a lot of work into it, and did some crazy things to pay off this debt...
Since paying off my debts, my focus has been on building an investment portfolio, but between traveling and building Wealthy, I don’t have much time to research shares so I’ve been a passive investing strategy.
This is a long term investment strategy, where instead of investing in individual shares, you invest in market indexes like the Dow Jones, Nasdaq, JSE Top 40 or Satrix 40 (exchange traded funds) etc.
I receive many emails from people telling me they dream of traveling and living in different countries, but they can’t afford it or it’s too expensive.
There are different ways to travel and/or live in different countries if you have little or no money.
I’ve often travelled and moved countries with close to zero dollars in my bank account, so I thought it’d be fun to share ways I’ve don’t this.
When I graduated from UCT I decided to dabble in investments and invested in the Ghana Stock Exchange.
I’ve since sold almost all those shares except for one in a mining company (or maybe it's cocoa, I'm not sure).
I’ve had those shares for 13 years. I sold the other shares to pay for my living expenses when I was doing my MBA.
