TalentProjX is a Talent Accelerator. Our flagship course is a four week Entrepreneurship Development Course designed for talented young South Africans from underprivileged communities. 

For our Gap Year Package, we invite selected Gap Year students (with the necessary motivation and independence) to join us. We expect you to fully participate. By doing so you will  accelerate your own talent whilst generating positive impact in the communities that we serve. 

Your safety is our first concern. South Africa has different rules and ways of doing things. We want to ensure that you navigate this environment in a safe way and don't have any surprising lessons. We also want you to be independent, make your own decisions and take accountability for yourself and your actions. We believe that we can achieve these two important objectives by selecting to engage in activities in safe areas, designing the activities to reduce risk, maintaining safety standards to EU levels, and finally ensuring that you understand the environments that you will operate in and act in an appropriate way. 

1. Fly in. We will meet you at the airport and take you to your accommodation. If you are building your own adventure then we will arrange to meet you when you get to Johannesburg.

2. Cape Town. We will give you and facilitate our top recommendations. However, you decide what you want to do. But make sure that you are in time for the road trip.

3. Road trip. Our road trip is a thoughtfully curated journey between selected backpackers. We have chosen backpackers on the basis of their: stunning locations, friendly welcome, and consistently enriching social experience. To get between backpackers we have selected the Bazbus. The Bazbus is a great social experience and will allow you to make friends with other travelers in South Africa.

   1. Backpackers. Backpackers are South Africa's version of youth hostels. The best backpackers have excellent facilities, stunning locations, incredibly helpful and knowledgeable staff, brilliant entertainment, clean bed-linen and duvets in excellent repair, great activities, and delicious well priced food.

   2. Bazbus. The Bazbus is another South African institution. The Bazbus is a privately run minibus company that provides safe hop-on-and-go transport between backpackers. The Bazbus is known for: being very social; taking passenger safety and safe driving incredibly seriously; and the courtesy and helpfulness of its drivers and staff.

4. Accommodation. Throughout your time with us you will be accommodated with other course participants. During the road trip that means some of South Africa's awesome backpackers. During the course, you will be in one of Johannesburg's central neighbourhoods, close to great facilities, parks and social spaces. During the nature and safari guide introduction, you will be staying in Hoedspruit a vibrant town close to the Kruger National Park, nestled among game parks.

5. Our duty of care. We take our duty of care seriously. We do everything in our power to ensure that the activities that we deliver to you directly and organise on your behalf from external suppliers are safe. That is to say that safety standards are up to European standards of safety. Where we have safety concerns, we will let you know in advance. 

6. Your responsibility and independence. Dovetailed with our duty of care is your own responsiblility for your safety and wellbeing, and the safety and wellbeing of those around you. You should expect to make sound decisions and not take any risks. We select our participants on the basis or their motivation, independence, and responsibility. If any participant endangers themselves or other participants, we reserve the right to ask that participant to leave the programme. 

Things work differently in South Africa. The majority of the population is very poor. As in all countries on the planet, a small portion of the population have decided to choose crime as their best economic option. That means there are always individuals and teams looking for opportunities to take advantage of naive or vulnerable people. It is easy to be safe in South Africa and it is also easy to make bad decisions and end up in harms way. We will give you extensive advice before arrival and once you arrive about how to stay safe.