Tools, resources, and community for South African entrepreneurs.
Freedom Wheels is a membership platform that curates the software, books, and equipment freelancers and side-hustlers actually need — with a revenue share paid back to active members from our external affiliate commissions.
Building an online income is harder than it should be.
Three problems we kept seeing again and again in the South African freelancer and side-hustler community.
South African freelancers waste thousands of Rand a year on software they don't use, courses they never finish, and equipment that doesn't fit their workflow. There's no curated path — just an endless marketplace and a million YouTube tutorials.
When you buy a laptop, a course, or a SaaS subscription, you pay retail. The platform earns the affiliate commission. You earn nothing back. Your spending generates revenue for everyone except you.
Most online communities are free to join and worthless to be in. The ones that charge give you a Discord invite and disappear. There's no accountability, no shared upside, no reason to stay beyond month one.
What if your membership paid you back?
Freedom Wheels negotiates affiliate partnerships with the tools, retailers, and learning platforms our members already use. When members buy through our curated links, we earn a commission. We pass a portion of that commission back to members as a monthly revenue share — proportional to their membership tier.
The bigger our membership, the more we negotiate. The more we negotiate, the more we earn. The more we earn, the more we share. Everyone\'s incentives point the same direction.
Pick a tier, get access to tools, content, and community. Subscription funds operations.
External partners — Amazon, Hostinger, Namecheap, Canva, ConvertKit — pay us commissions when members buy.
Each month, distributable revenue is split across active members, proportional to tier.
Three steps. That\'s it.
Choose your membership
Pick Starter, Pro, or Elite based on how much you want to spend on tools and resources each month, and how large a revenue share you want to qualify for.
Use the curated tools and resources
Get access to member-only buying guides, tool reviews, software discounts, and a private community of South African entrepreneurs. Buy the products you actually need through our affiliate links.
Receive your monthly revenue share
Each month, we total up the affiliate commissions we've earned, set aside a portion for operations and growth, and distribute the rest to active members proportional to tier. Starter gets 10% of the pool, Pro gets 25%, Elite gets 50% — split across all members in your tier.
Simple, honest subscriptions.
Pick a tier. Cancel anytime. 7-day money-back guarantee on your first month.
- Access to all member-only buying guides and tool reviews
- Member-only pricing on 12+ software tools (Canva, Notion, Hostinger, more)
- Private community access (read-only)
- 10% share of monthly affiliate revenue pool
- Cancel anytime — no lock-in
- Community posting privileges
- Monthly group calls
- Strategy sessions
- Everything in Starter
- Full community participation (posts, DMs, weekly office hours)
- Monthly group call with founder (60 min, Q&A)
- Early access to new guides and partnerships
- 25% share of monthly affiliate revenue pool
- Cancel anytime — no lock-in
- 1:1 strategy calls
- Everything in Pro
- 1:1 monthly strategy call with founder (30 min)
- Direct input on next partnerships and content
- Member-only product discounts (negotiated separately)
- 50% share of monthly affiliate revenue pool
- Cancel anytime — no lock-in
Start your Pro membership
R299/month · Cancel anytime · 7-day money-back guarantee
Use a different email than your PayFast merchant account (if you have one).
You\'ll be redirected to PayFast\'s secure checkout. We never see your card details.
How the revenue share actually works.
We want to be transparent about what the revenue share is, and what it isn\'t.
A monthly distribution of net affiliate commissions earned by Freedom Wheels through our partnerships with Amazon Associates, Hostinger, Namecheap, Canva, ConvertKit, and others. When members buy products they were already going to buy — through our links — we earn a commission. After platform costs, the remainder is split across active members proportional to tier.
It is not a guaranteed return. It is not interest on your subscription. It is not an investment. The amount distributed each month depends entirely on how much commission we actually earn. In months where affiliate revenue is low, distributions will be low. In months where it\'s high, distributions will be high. We will publish a monthly revenue report so members can see exactly what was earned and how it was distributed.
We will never promise a specific percentage return. Any platform that does is lying to you.
Within each tier, the share is split pro-rata across all active members in that tier. Example: 100 Pro members share 25% of the pool — each gets 0.25%.
Where the affiliate revenue comes from.
We partner with established platforms that pay us real commissions when members buy. The full partner list is public. Monthly revenue breakdowns are published in our transparency reports.
Questions, answered.
Built by a South African entrepreneur, for South African entrepreneurs.
Freedom Wheels was founded by Maphalle Malatji, a South African software developer who spent years watching local freelancers and side-hustlers struggle with the same problems: scattered tools, no leverage on spend, and communities that took more than they gave.
Freedom Wheels is built on a simple principle: when members spend money on tools they need, the platform should share the upside. Not as an investment scheme. Not as a get-rich-quick pitch. As a straightforward subscription business with a real revenue model and a fair split with members.
Stop paying retail. Start earning back.
Memberships start at R99/month. Cancel anytime. 7-day money-back guarantee.