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Crew needed for superyachts

There is a surplus of highly-paid jobs available for people who are able and willing to work on a super yacht

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Help in designing your gap year

More and more students are planning to take a break between school and further studies, or between further studies and starting to work. However, many are either pressured out of it

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The real cost of a gap year

We compare the cost of staying at home to going on a structured gap year course in South Africa

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Ideas on Earning an Income
There is not a shortage of jobs in this world – there is a shortage of great paying jobs!
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After your gap year

When your gap experience is over and the dust has settled, and you are safely back at home it can be difficult to settle down at first.

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To gap or not to gap?

Who doesn’t enjoy the concept of a break, a holiday, a gap from the daily routine of modern life? The question is really how long of a gap are you able to take?

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Obstacles to your gap
If you mention taking a ‘gap year’ to people you will probably receive variations on one of two reactions:
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Why take a gap?

At any one moment there are thousands of people around the world taking a gap – time out – who have finished school,

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If you only have a South African passport - working visas are currently only available for the USA and Canada.

Here are a couple of sites which are very useful for holders of South African passports:
If you are a foreign national traveling to South Africa, start at the SouthAfrica.info website to get information on visa requirements.

Travelling to:

China USA

Canada UK

India South America

Japan Tanzania

China

This site is run by the Chinese Embassy in South Africa, and has all the information you should need about obtaining a visa to travel to China.

Canada

The Citizenship and Immigration Canada website will provide you with all the information you need about the visa requirements of Canada.

India

Find out all you need to comply with visa requirements in India.

Japan

Japan offers many nationalities a visa on arrival system as long as the reason for travelling to Japan is not to reside in the country, obtain employment or work in another capacity with remuneration.

Japan has 'Reciprocal Visa Exemption Arrangements' with the following countries:

For a period of 6 months or less:

Austria, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (UK citizens only)

For a period of 3 months or less:

Argentina, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Rep., El Salvador, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal (except when the passport was originally issued in present or former Portuguese colonies), San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Surinam, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and Uruguay

For a period of 90 days or less:

Andorra, Australia, Barbados, Czech Rep., Estonia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, New Zealand, Poland and the USA

For a period of up to 14 days: Brunei

For all nationalities not listed above (including South Africans), a visa must be obtained prior to travelling to Japan. If travelling on business or as a tourist a 'Temporary Visitor's Visa' can be issued at your local Japanese Embassy and usually gives you permission to stay in Japan for a period of up to 90 days. If you are travelling to Japan to work, find employment or live then it is best to call your local Japanese Embassy or Consulate and ask them the best procedure.

South America

An excellent website run by GSAOnline which will provide you with basic travel facts and visa requirements for all the South American countries, from the perspective of you as a South African.

Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Columbia | Ecuador | Falkland Islands | French Guiana | Guyana | Paraguay | Peru | Suriname | Uruguay | Venezuela

Tanzania

This website on the country, visas and passports is run by the Tanzanian government in the USA.

USA

If you are a citizen of the United States of America, then go to the website of TDS for information on traveling to just about any country in the world. You can also find any US embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission at the US Department of State’s website.

If you want to travel to the USA and are not a US citizen, then read here how you can get a visa.