Sandile Shezi (born 1993) is a South African millionaire businessman. He is a popular forex trader and also the founder and CEO of Global Forex Institute.

Sandile Shezi Age

Shezi was born in Umlazi, in the South of Durban, South Africa. He is 28 years old as of 2020.

Education

Shezi attended the Durban University of Technology (DUT) where he obtained a National Diploma in Public Relations and applied communications.

Sandile Shezi Wife

Much is not known about Shezi’s wife. He, however, showcases his love for her on his Instagram page by sending her lovely messages.

He met his wife while in the university and has since then been together.

Forex Career

He started taking risks and trading at a very tender age, not too dissimilar to the forex trading others are able to do if they were to look hier or elsewhere for various forex brokers to aid them starting in the foreign exchange markets.

Shezi used the money he earned by selling muffins at school to trade forex. He also used his tuition fees and that of his friends to trade.

Shezi, still young in the forex trade, had George Van der Riet, who had about fifteen years experience, to look up to. He partnered with George Van der Riet and founded the Global Forex Institute.

Global Forex Institute

The Global Forex Institute was founded with the aim of reducing unemployment and creating financial freedom for the youth in South Africa.

The institute is one of the first to fully provide young ones with long-time mentorship schemes on how to become successful forex traders.

About 10,000 students have been fully mentored over the years. In 2014 the school won an award for being the number one forex training provider in Africa.

Sandile Shezi Controversy

Sandile Shezi got into hot soup in 2015 when it was reported that their programme was fraudulent. Economist, Mike Schussler, claimed that portions of their course were plagiarized.

Schussler said, “It’s a trick. It’s all bullshit. A lot of the people who sell these courses… the majority are schemes to fleece people out of money.”

There had also been reports that Shezi’s business partner George Van Der Riet had been convicted on charges of manslaughter in the UK.

Shezi responded to the allegations, saying, “Van Der Riet spent 2 years as a guest of Majesty as a result of an altercation where a man sustained head injuries and died in hospital 3 days later.”

Regarding the allegations of plagiarism, Shezi stated that the modules were compiled for them before GFI was established. He said, “I took it personally upon myself to compare the notes. I could not find any ‘plagiarized’ sentences. I couldn’t find any correlation between the format and chapter headings at all. I did however notice that some of the pictures looked similar.”

In 2015, Minnie Dlamini dispelled rumours that she was caught up in a love triangle. It was reported that Sandile Shezi showered her with expensive gifts, making her current husband Quinton Jones feel uncomfortable. However, all this was far from the truth. 

Allan Ledwaba told City Press he was an attendee of one such event, which took place in 2016.

Shezi showed Ledwaba his trading accounts, which allegedly had over R89 million, and he was driving fancy cars such as Lamborghinis and Ferraris — which convinced Ledwaba to invest.

Ledwaba said he procured a R500,000 loan from his father, which he invested in Global Forex Institute.

“The agreement was that he would trade the money for me, and then every year he would give us profit and then the full amount we had invested thereafter,” said Ledwaba.

“But I became suspicious when I researched the name of the law firm used to draw up our contracts. I went to the law firm and spoke to the director, who said that they did not have a relationship with Sandile.”

Sandile Shezi Foundation

The Sandile Shezi Foundation is a non-profit organization which was established with the sole purpose of transforming young people’s minds and lives in the African Continent.

The philosophy upon which the Foundation is built emphasizes enhancing Africa’s Education, Health, and Wealth to enable Africans to assume responsible roles in the development of our nation.

Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $1.3 million which he has earned through his successful career as a forex trader.