Naledi Mokoena
Lead facilitator, market basics
Equity analyst by day, covering consumer goods. Runs the opening module on reading a share price and the exercise where students match a quote to a real annual report.
Wallstreet Heroes began in a Woodstock classroom with a whiteboard, a stack of printed annual reports and a group of students who had never been shown how a company's numbers connect to its share price. What started as a Saturday morning experiment is now a small team of working analysts, accountants and teachers who run weekend workshops, after-school clubs and an online cohort across Cape Town and beyond.
Our modules are built with people who already do the work: school maths departments, community libraries, and a handful of firms that let their analysts spend a Saturday morning in Woodstock. None of them pay for a mention here, and none of them see our lesson plans before they run.
Schools
Their Grade 10 and 11 classes host our after-school club once a week. Teachers sit in, ask hard questions, and tell us when an exercise is too abstract for the room.
Practitioners
Working professionals who facilitate sessions on reading annual reports and company statements. They volunteer their time and keep the material grounded in documents, not opinions.
Community
A quiet room, reliable wifi and a shelf of business reference books. The Saturday sessions started here and still run here when the weather turns.
Universities
Two campus societies co-host our online cohort each term. They handle sign-ups and peer follow-up; we handle the curriculum and the risk-awareness line.
Non-profits
Organisations running first-job readiness training invite us in for a budgeting module. We adapt the workbook to whatever income range their participants are actually working with.
Peer review
A small group of teachers and lecturers reads every module before it runs. They flag anything that sounds like a pitch and check that the maths holds up.
Wallstreet Heroes started in a Woodstock classroom with eight students, one whiteboard and a stack of printed annual reports. Nobody in the room could explain why a share price moved. That gap is the whole reason we are still here.
We are not a brokerage, a signal service or a shortcut. We are analysts, accountants and teachers who spend Saturdays explaining how companies, prices and economies actually behave, then handing over a public report and letting people work it out themselves.
We do not name shares to buy, we do not run signal groups, and we turn down requests for "just one good pick". The moment someone hands you an answer, you stop learning to read the page yourself.
Every module opens with what can go wrong: prices fall, businesses fail, savings lose ground to inflation. Understanding the downside is the entry fee for any serious conversation about money.
Bid, ask, volume, dividend, diversification. If a term needs a footnote, we write the footnote. Sessions are run in everyday English because confusion is not a teaching method.
Each module ends with a real exercise: a listed company's annual report, a first-salary budget, a comparison of last year's prices. You leave with something you did, not something you were told.
The effect we are after is simple and slow. A student who can read a share price, question a pitch and budget a first salary is harder to mislead. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and it is why we keep the workbook free and the doors open in Woodstock.
Nobody here sells signals or manages anyone's money. The facilitators are working analysts, accountants and teachers who give up Saturday mornings in Woodstock because they remember how little they understood at eighteen. Each one writes their own module and sits through the others before teaching it.
Lead facilitator, market basics
Equity analyst by day, covering consumer goods. Runs the opening module on reading a share price and the exercise where students match a quote to a real annual report.
Chartered accountant, budgeting track
Ten years in audit, now in practice. Built the first-salary budgeting session after watching graduates sign offer letters without checking what transport and rent would leave them.
High school economics teacher
Teaches Grade 11 and 12 in Athlone. Adapts every module for the after-school clubs, where the room is noisier and the questions come faster than in a weekend workshop.
Risk awareness lead
Former bank credit officer. Wrote the checklist we use to break down speculative pitches, and he is the one who insists we never name a company as a buy.
Online cohort coordinator
Runs the remote sessions and keeps the workbook current. Reviews every public company report we hand out so the figures still match what students find on the listing page.
Programme coordinator, Woodstock
Handles the Saturday bookings and the school partnerships. If a session moves or a room changes, she is the one who tells everyone before they travel across town.
Every facilitator signs the same rule before joining: no stock tips, no signal groups, no promises about what a market will do next. If a question has no honest answer, we say so and move on to the next exercise.