With stratospheric price rises meaning many homeowners earn more in one year’s equity than their salary, the prospect of becoming a property magnate has become a favourite fantasy among legions of wage slaves.Critics say the course, along with another course called Inside Track and a third, run by American David Shamy, are encouraging the unwary fantasists to get their fingers burned. But Borsje – who says he went from nothing to having an international portfolio of 74 properties – claims he is doing nothing less than inciting a revolution in the financial mindset of the population “We are caught in a cycle of dependence We have been conditioned to do things in a certain way. We are taught to go to school, get a job, get into debt and that’s your lot. The Government is happy with that because they don’t want you to go anywhere because they rely on your money,” he tells his audience to murmurs of assent.His presentation begins with an apocalyptic vision of the future when public services and pensions have collapsed, and a property portfolio is the only way to escape poverty. Brandishing cuttings from the Daily Mail to prove his point, Borsje says: “If you rely on the system it’s going to let you down Hospitals and schools are going to disintegrate. We have to become independent of the system, financially independent of the system You have to adopt success psychology What stops you? Fear. Fear is lack of knowledge.”Once he provides the knowledge to conquer fear, he says anyone can become master of their own destiny by buying properties below their value, refinancing often, and ensuring they always have tenants.

“Even if you don’t know what you are doing, property is still relatively safe. “I’ve got a few properties in Belgrade, which I think is going to go up, and I’d like to start here.”Others, not surprisingly, were more sceptical. Christopher Corden, 65, from Maida Vale in London said: “It does not matter whether he buys or sells properties. If he gets £1,500 from 1,000 people, he makes more than £1 million.”So far, around 400 people in the UK have signed up for the weekend courses, adding another £600,000 to Mr Borsje’s income. Ray Boulger, of Charcol Online, said information offered in seminars such as these was either misleading, exaggerated or could be found much more cheaply in bookshops and mortgage advisers.”You only have to look at 1989-92 to see the stupidity of saying that property is bullet proof,” he said. “Some of what he is saying makes sense and some of it is questionable, but the bottom line is that anyone who pays £1,500 to be told that needs his or her head examining.”. Ms Dynamite, 21-year old Naomi McLean-Daley, won three prizes including UK Act of the Year at last night’s Music of Black Origin (Mobo) awards.

She also came top in the best single and best newcomer categories.The singer, who shot to fame only recently, joins more established stars such as Jimmy Cliff and Chaka Khan among the winners. Ms Dynamite’s six nominations equalled the record set by Craig David in 2000.The rap band So Solid Crew, who walked away with three Mobo awards last year, were nominated for two more this time, including UK Act of the Year, but failed to win anything.There was a poignant moment when Aaliyah’s “More Than A Woman” won in the Best Video category. The singer died in a plane crash in August 2001, but her music still attracts a strong following.The Mobo awards, now in their seventh year, celebrate a wide spectrum of music of black origin – R&B, hip-hop, rap, jazz, reggae and gospel – and reward artists of any colour. The awards ceremony will be shown on Channel 4 tomorrow.Earlier this month, Ms Dynamite pocketed a £20,000 cheque for the Mercury. Born in Archway, north London, one of 11 children of a Scottish mother and Jamaican father, she overcame the limitations of growing up poor and did well at school. Moby may have sold tens of millions of albums in the last three years, but he sure doesn’t look the part.

He’s small, pale and bald, and talks in flat, halted tones like a kid who’s been asked to read aloud at school. His wardrobe seems to consist of sagging T-shirts salvaged from the Eighties, while his dancing resembles a geriatric morris dancer who’s downed a bottle of whisky It’s only when the music starts that all becomes clear. This descendant of Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, is the consummate rock star, a wisecracking frontman whose banter is matched by his mastery of a range of instruments, from the guitar to turntables, keyboards and bongo drums. Of all his musical playthings, however, Moby seems most at home with his guitar, offering us a few chords from Deliverance’s “Duelling Banjos”, and the odd snatch of the Ramones. “Left to my own devices I’d just stand up here and do cover songs,” he confesses.Emerging from New York’s punk scene, Moby’s first band was the hardcore outfit the Vatican Commandos. His roots are evident in the way he charges up and down the stage barking into his mic, and in a joyously hell-for-leather version of the Ramones’s “Blitzkrieg Bop”.Not that Moby has forgotten the songs that put him where he is. Old and new hits are played with equal energy, among them “Extreme Ways”, “We Are All Made Of Stars”, and his early Twin Peaks-sampling “Go”.Inevitably, though, it’s the tracks from Play that get the biggest cheers.