Six high-paying side hustles you can start for free
· The South African
Whether you’re filling your tank, planning a holiday, or paying off debt, your bank balance may be leaving hints it’s time for a side hustle. You have a million-and-one choices to make money online or in-person, but very few actually pay.
These are your options in South Africa.
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The 6 Side hustles paying real money
Every side hustle requires effort, especially those that don’t need any cash to get started. When the barrier to entry is low, there’s plenty of competition. Expect to apply yourself to maintain your income.
Self-Publishing Activity Books
You can write or illustrate a book. You might think there’s money involved in starting. But if you use services like Canva, you can create a colouring book or activity book and sell it worldwide through services like Amazon KDP. These services print the book whenever someone orders it. They deduct printing and other fees from your book’s price.
Some self-publishers report making upwards of R6 000 a month publishing multiple print-on-demand colouring books.
Modelling and Acting
You don’t need to be South Africa’s next top model to land a gig as a model or actor. There are plenty of options for finding work. Background work, for example, allows you to earn roughly R450 per gig. There’s also the option to become a commercial model and make more per shoot.
On-demand Deliveries
As a delivery driver, your passengers are inanimate, meaning no mess and no low ratings. If you do last-mile deliveries through a service like Picup, you can use your car or bakkie, fill it with parcels and earn whenever you’re available. Many last-mile delivery drivers who work for companies like Makro and Dischem work on weekends.
After deducting fuel and car maintenance costs, you could earn an additional R2 000 a month for a few days of work, especially during peak periods like month-end.
Bargain Hunting and Reselling
Why not become the connection between your colleagues and friends and cheaper products? Find out what they’re looking for and offer to help them purchase the product at a discounted rate. Once they know you have connections, they will ask you to help. Then add a finder’s fee to your purchase.
You won’t make millions, but could make a few extra thousand a month.
Online Course Creation
There are people, albeit not as many as there once were, who purchase online courses. Offer your expertise in a skill others want; create a presentation and accompany it with a voice-over to sell through a service like Udemy. Promote your expertise through TikTok and link to the course. You can make more than R1 000 a month, passively.
Quality Assurance and Artificial Intelligence Training
With unlimited Wi-Fi or data and an ability to follow instructions, you can work part-time in quality assurance (QA) through a service like test.io. Rather than earning pennies playing online games, these QA jobs pay per gig or per bug you identify. The amounts are meagre, roughly R32 per bug, but it’s work you can do in your spare time.
You could also pivot to training artificial intelligence. The pay is more competitive if you have expertise in a field Large Language Models (LLMs) want to refine.
