• General
    • About
    • Buy a signed print
    • Podcast
    • TNT Radio
    • Jerm’s Journal
    • War Report
    • Contact
  • Conversations
    • Early Access
    • Lifestyle
    • Science
    • Culture
    • Geopolitics
    • Economics
    • History
    • Philosophy
    • Entertainment
    • Biography
    • South Africa
  • Cartoons
    • Buy a signed print
    • Culture Wars
    • Geopolitics
    • Deep Thinking
    • Climate Change
    • Propaganda
    • Economics
    • South Africa
    • Hard To Categorise
  • More Ideas
    • Specifically
      • COVID-19
      • Viruses
      • China
      • Russia
      • Vaccines
      • United Nations
      • Climate change
      • CBDC
      • False flags
      • Propaganda
      • Coverups
      • Black Lives Matter
      • Christianity
      • Masculinity
      • Prepping
      • Permaculture
      • Diet
      • Music
    • Solutions
    • Beginner’s guides
    • Mega Trends
    • The pill metaphor
    • Paradigm shifts
    • On Conspiracy Theories
  • Members
    • Start here
    • Live Show
    • Schedule
    • Early Access
    • Telegram
    • Journal
  • Sponsors
Become a member

Best commentary and cartoons

WAR REPORT
Podcasts, cartoons, and commentary sent twice per week.
Invalid email address
Thanks for subscribing!
Twitter YouTube Telegram
Jerm WarfareJerm Warfare
  • General
    • About
    • Buy a signed print
    • Podcast
    • TNT Radio
    • Jerm’s Journal
    • War Report
    • Contact
  • Conversations
    1. Early Access
    2. Lifestyle
    3. Science
    4. Culture
    5. Geopolitics
    6. Economics
    7. History
    8. Philosophy
    9. Entertainment
    10. Biography
    11. South Africa
    Featured
    The Offspring
    Podcast

    Pete Parada on punk rock and being fired from The Offspring

    Recent
    Pyramid Of Giza in water

    A beginner’s guide to the Egyptian pyramids, with Jason Breshears

    Dragon in China

    Carl Zha on busting myths about China

    John McAfee

    Janice McAfee on what happened to her husband John McAfee

  • Cartoons
    1. Buy a signed print
    2. Culture Wars
    3. Geopolitics
    4. Deep Thinking
    5. Climate Change
    6. Propaganda
    7. Economics
    8. South Africa
    9. Hard To Categorise
    Featured
    Digital slavery and breaking free from cellphones
    Cartoons

    Breaking free from digital slavery

    Recent
    Glad About Not Being Vaccinated

    A guy walks into an anti-establishment bar

    A piggy bank worried about no cash

    A frightened piggy bank

    Digital slavery and breaking free from cellphones

    Breaking free from digital slavery

  • More Ideas
    • Specifically
      • COVID-19
      • Viruses
      • China
      • Russia
      • Vaccines
      • United Nations
      • Climate change
      • CBDC
      • False flags
      • Propaganda
      • Coverups
      • Black Lives Matter
      • Christianity
      • Masculinity
      • Prepping
      • Permaculture
      • Diet
      • Music
    • Solutions
    • Beginner’s guides
    • Mega Trends
    • The pill metaphor
    • Paradigm shifts
    • On Conspiracy Theories
  • Members
    • Start here
    • Live Show
    • Schedule
    • Early Access
    • Telegram
    • Journal
  • Sponsors
Become a member
Jerm WarfareJerm Warfare
Podcast

Herman Mashaba on using apartheid to become wealthy

An inspiring story of how an oppressed black South African used the system for his own gain.
JermBy Jerm4 May 2020Updated:12 Mar 2023
Apartheid sign

Herman Mashaba is a South African politician and entrepreneur with an inspiring background. He grew up during the apartheid regime and managed to do what most black South Africans were unable to do at the time.

He refused to let the oppressive system break him and, instead, found a way to use it to his advantage and become wealthy.

Very wealthy.

Herman Mashaba’s autobiography.
Herman discussing his success.
Herman’s book about free market economics.

Rags to riches

Herman bought a cheap car and, with no driver’s licence, drove himself from job interview to job interview, looking for any sales job that would have him. He began by selling (black) African haircare products and became their top earner.

I love his stoic approach of turning an obstacle into an opportunity.

His company, Black Like Me, was launched in 1985 with a loan from his friend and businessman Walter Dube. Herman went on to become a self-made millionaire in a time when all the odds were stacked against him.

He says that his love for free market economics and capitalism is on what he based his success.

Our conversation

Today, Herman is a career politician for whose politics I don’t care, but his personal journey is immensely uplifting, motivating and a true example of swallowing the white pill.

He was surrounded by darkness but focused on the little bit of light.

Share. Telegram WhatsApp Facebook Twitter Email

RELATED WARFARE

Thabo Mbeki
Podcast

Anthony Brink on Thabo Mbeki being right about HIV

Kenneth Meshoe of the ACDP
Podcast

Kenneth Meshoe on Christianity, vaccines and politics

Moe Shaik
Podcast

Moe Shaik on South Africa’s central intelligence

Podcast

Mmusi Maimane on direct elections

Comments are closed.

Best commentary and cartoons

WAR REPORT
Podcasts, cartoons, and commentary sent twice per week.
Invalid email address
Thanks for subscribing!

LATEST WARFARE

Glad About Not Being Vaccinated Cartoons

A guy walks into an anti-establishment bar

A piggy bank worried about no cash Cartoons

A frightened piggy bank

Pyramid Of Giza in water Early Access

A beginner’s guide to the Egyptian pyramids, with Jason Breshears

Dragon in China TNT Radio

Carl Zha on busting myths about China

Jerm Warfare is the battleground of South African cartoonist and broadcaster, Jerm.
Fighting bad ideas since 2005.

Twitter YouTube Telegram RSS

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.