Thanks for the replies so far guys

Dave - I agree, education definitely gives the best ROI. Which is what I'm doing now. Educating myself about all the different types of assets I might not have thought about yet.

Yvonne - I've done what you said. I started a site last year that, within 3 months, was earning between R1k and R1.5k. After about 12 months, it started earning between R5k and R6k. It's exciting and it's what I plan to do with ALL my little R500 investments (where possible).

I'm a web developer but let's not keep this restricted to web-related investments. I'm trying to expand my horizons here and see what I like. The best way I can imagine to do that is to find out about as many different things as possible.

Regarding building a site to R100k a month, I'm all for that but I'm going to be careful at what cost (time-wise) it comes. I'm not looking to start a business I need to work INSIDE 8 hours a day but a number of smaller businesses / investments I can work ON for just 1-2 hours a day. I've done it and I know people who do it, so I know it's possible. Now I just want to know different ways other people have achieved same.

I'll continue with my second suggestion...

2. Network marketing - Some ideas exist (The Passive Incomes magazine) where you can invest a small amount of money and a FAIR amount of time (ie: quite a bit) to get a reasonable ROI.

NB: Network marketing is a touchy subject. Leave the arguments for another thread. Let's focus on ideas here.