About XChange South Africa

We arrange internships; assist with visa applications and prepare all the necessary documents required for your visa application. We arrange student accommodation in shared houses, hostels or apartments that is affordable suitable, student living. We will be your permanent contact partner providing advice and support throughout your application process and offer assistance with visa formalities. Students are met at the airport on their arrival and taken to their accommodation.

You are briefed on local issues and given a supplementary information pack of brochures, personalized information, a local simcard and maps. We spend several hours with each student on arrival to ensure that the first impression of Cape Town or South Africa is positive and lasting.

We accompany you to your place of work on your first day and monitor progress at regular intervals with the company concerned. We would find a placement for you based on your university requirements and your own personal interests.

We therefore consider your career, personal and academic requirements when we work with you in finding internship or volunteer placements. We further work according to your time frame to ensure that we are able to place you for the time you have available to visit our country or one of the other countries we work with.

XChange helps to arrange activities for our students and distributes an internal weekly newsletter. We aim to save you as much money possible by obtaining decent discounts where possible for overland trips, tours and activities in Cape Town.

The fields of placement cover virtually every possible field of employment. The most common fields for internship placements are Business Administration, Event Management, Social Work, Human Resources, Economics, Marketing, Media, Law, Architecture, Engineering, Physiotherapy, Occupation Therapy, Tourism, Social Media, Information Technology and Education. We can basically place virtually every field and has experience in doing so as well.