Combo Placements in South Africa

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 3 Weeks

Spend your Gap Year with Gap Year South Africa raising an awareness of the importance of marine conservation as well as motivating behavioural change amongst young people in South Africa. Volunteers will learn to freedive in the ocean and take back their underwater experiences to our under-resourced partner school. Volunteers will be empowering peer educators and children through marine education and raising the awareness of the current and impending threats facing our oceans and environment.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months

Countries: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

You don't have to chose between taking an adventure holiday or volunteering when you sign up to Kaya's amazing multi-country volunteer and adventure combo tours. Travelling across Africa, all our combo tours include a length of stay on at least one volunteer project that you can read more about on our volunteering abroad pages - giving you enough time to make a difference and get the full volunteering experience without compromise. Then when your work is done, explore the wonders of the African wilds with our experienced local guides.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 8 Weeks

Live within the stunning world heritage site of iSimangaliso Wetlands and provide teaching assistance to vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the village creches of St Lucia in South Africa

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 4 Weeks to 12 Weeks

This project offers volunteers the opportunity to enhance their wildlife photography skills whilst contributing to vital conservation within the reserve. Our constantly growing photo database helps with education initiatives and proceeds go directly back into our core projects. Based at Thanda Private Game Reserve in South Africa.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Months

Countries: Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia

One of the travel writers’ great clichés describes Malawi as ‘the warm heart of Africa.’ Clichés, however, don’t take hold unless there’s more than a ring of truth about them. Malawi’s reputation is deserved. Its people are some of the friendliest on the continent and the beauty of this project is that it exposes you directly to their warmth and guarantees you unforgettable memories. The scale of your task here can be seen in the background provided by some depressing statistics.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 3 Weeks

Volunteer with Gap Year South Africa assisting local community school children through teaching extra lessons during after school homework club and contributing to the refurbishment of our partner primary school. Volunteers will be teaching numerous subjects to enthusiastic underprivileged primary school children in the local community of Masiphumelele in Cape Town, South Africa.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Feel the heartbeat and rhythm of Africa at Amakhala Game Reserve, which has quickly become one of the finest tourist destinations in the Eastern Cape wilderness. It is a malaria free reserve which boasts the accolade of accommodating the Big Five in South Africa. In addition to the king of the jungle, timid leopards, clumsy rhinos, graceful elephants and mystic buffalo make up the big five. In addition, a diverse abundance exploding in a variety of antelope and other species such as giraffe, warthog and cheetah roam the plains which form Amakhala Game Reserve which will provide you with African memories which will last forever. Amakhala’s ethos is one of community support where volunteers get involved in the local Isipho orphanage and contribute by playing games, educating the children and support with the vegetable garden. Volunteers can also contribution through community clean ups and visits to the Amakhala Craft Center.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 6 Weeks to 10 Weeks

Winner of Best Gap Year Company - Sunday Times Combine life in the saddle searching for wild game through the african bush with helping on life changing conservation and community projects.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

Volunteer in the South African Bush and help protect the fascinating wild dog species from extinction

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 3 Weeks

Spend your Gap Year with Gap Year South Africa assisting with teaching physical education lessons and coaching sports such as soccer, rugby, cricket, netball, basketball and hockey to enthusiastic underprivileged primary school children in a local community in Cape Town, South Africa.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 12 Weeks

The Kariega Conservation Project is designed to offer volunteers the opportunity to be involved in all conservation related projects on the reserve. You may start seeing yourself as “assistant conservation managers” as all of the work done by you will improve the quality of the reserve. *Please note – all prices for this placement programme have been held for 2013!* The data collected by you will be utilized by Kariega management in making important conservation decisions for the reserve. As a volunteer you therefore derive a good deal of satisfaction from your work, as your efforts directly contributes to improving the reserve.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 3 Weeks

Volunteer with underprivileged children in the local community. Our unique, all-inclusive programmes give you the opportunity to make a difference, whilst experiencing the beauty South Africa has to offer with our activity filled programmes.

Countries: South Africa
Duration: from 2 Weeks to 6 Weeks

Your mission on this project is to educate and support disadvantaged and vulnerable children, while helping to uplift the community not only through education, but also through health-care, building projects and sports. Being based in Cape Town, South Africa, voted as one of the top tourist destinations in the world you will have opportunities to enjoy the many restaurants, bars and markets the town has to offer, as well as many outdoor leisure activities.