TEFL South Africa

TEFL course and TEFL Jobs in South Africa & Africa

South Africa is extremely popular as an English language learning location - amongst many countries of the Southern hemisphere, as well as those directly above it in Europe, where an overnight flight avoids any kind of jetlag, and the costs of English language courses are sufficiently reasonable to cover the extra cost of the flight down under when students stay for 8 weeks or more.

With all its intrigue and historical and political past, South Africa is an fascinating place to be right now. As it continues to find a new order, you would be flung into the very heart of this eclectic, complex culture.

TEFL courses here, most frequently the Cambridge CELTA are of a very high quality, and jobs are also accessible at the right time of year. Whether you stay in South Africa after your course, or venture north towards more central areas of Africa, you are guaranteed teaching experience like nowhere else. Jobs in Africa tend to be almost exclusively of the voluntary kind, and any number of organisations can help you secure work there. The most famous, probably, VSO recruits widely for teaching jobs there, but these do tend to go to those with a prior experience, who can train groups of local teacher on TEFL best practice.

South Africa is a relatively new English language learning and teaching destination. International standard English foreign language institutes have only been operating in South Africa for the past 10 to 15 years. The vast majority of them are in Cape Town, but there are also very good language institutes in Durban and in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Most language institutes will hire South African TEFL qualified English first language speaking teachers first, as they don't need to organise work permits for them, although some language institutes may hire international teachers, on a part-time or sometimes full-time basis. Teachers may be hired throughout the year, depending on staff needs at the institute and most teachers are often initially taken on on a part-time basis. After completing their CELTA course, some international trainees offer their services with volunteer teaching programmes. These are best researched on the internet.

Cape Town
• Cape Town Cambridge CELTA	from £841
Durban
• Durban Cambridge CELTA - Durban	from £885
• Durban Foundation in Teaching English to Younger Learners	from £398
Johannesburg
• Johannesburg Cambridge CELTA	from £796