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You have to extend your temporary residence permit/visa at Home Affairs, at least 1 or 2 months before your first residence permit has expired. This can take some time (5/6 hours!), but with our handy tips you could get it done in no time.
Remember to take the right documents with you (this is very important). You will need:
Your passport
Your return airplane ticket
R5000 in cash or a printout of your bank statement with at least R5000 in it (calculate what this is in your currency) to show that you have enough money during your stay.
Your internship contract
A copy of your passport
A copy of your internship contract
R425 to pay the extension of your temporary permit
Furthermore, take care that you arrive at Home Affairs in time to be one of the first people in the line. Moreover, you will be able to find a parking spot in front of or close to the building. In Cape Town the doors of Home Affairs open at 07:45am. Make sure you are there before 07:30am.
Once, you are in, you will fill in a form and show the right documents. After payment you will receive a receipt and after a certain period of time (ask at the spot) you will have to come back to pick up your temporary residence permit.
For more information about the specific requirements for your country of origin, call Home Affairs: 021 462 4970
Address of Home Affaris in Cape Town:
Fair Cape Builing
56 Barrack Street
8001, Cape Town
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If you're going to do your internship in Cape Town and are looking for accommodation in Cape Town:
Check out the
Cape Ads newspaper (It comes out once a week on Thursdays) and is available at most grocery stores and news agents.
Ask as many fellow interns as possible, whether they know interns in Cape Town who might know of any rooms to rent in international student houses.
Check the weekend newspaper - the
"Weekend Argus" as well. When sifting through tons of ads, it helps to know the names of Cape Town's
various suburbs. If you don't have a car - the following suburbs are closest to the city centre (in order of proximity): , City Bowl, Gardens, Tamboerskloof, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek and Observatory.
The following suburbs are also worth checking out if you have a car: Camps Bay, Greenpoint, De Waterkant, Mouille Point and Seapoint (Camp's Bay is a great accommodation option if you want to live near the beach). These suburbs are all a 5-10 minutes drive away from the city centre and are situated next to the ocean.
Check out our
maps of Cape Town of Cape Town to give you an idea of where everything is.
And look for internship accommodation in Cape Town on
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IT Internship available in Cape Town South Africa: PHP Programmer
Internship Cape Town PHP programmer with capetownmagazine.com
Job description IT-Internship Cape Town
The internet is a dynamic and ever growing entity, hence CapeTownMagazine.com always wants to be the first when integrating the latest in technology. As a programmer, the first stage of your internship will be to document the technical part of our website. After the documentation you will build solutions together with our external web builder and be responsible for all the new functionalities that will be added to our website.
The Cape Town internship profile
We are looking for an intern student who: knows all about PHP; someone who has already made some personal websites; who enjoys working with new technology together with an external developer; is currently doing a higher educated IT related course and has knowledge of SQL, CSS and JavaScript; has a wide range of internet/IT interests, is practical, loves challenges and is comfortable in the English language. And last but not least, our new intern has to be enthusiastic about the idea of doing an internship in South Africa for a least 20 weeks.
What we offer the intern in South Africa
An exciting and sunny internship in South Africa’s intern city Cape Town, where you will get lots of experience in different cultures, businesses and communication. The most essential trait we’re looking for in our intern is a “getting things done” work ethic. This is something that you can’t overlook on your CV. You will do your internship in a fun and energetic environment together with South Africans, Dutch people and Germans. You receive R1000 compensation. Does this internship sound good to you? If so, take the first step and hit the contact us button.
Generally speaking Cape Town is as safe as any other town, but obviously there are some simple do’s and don’ts for safety for anyone who lives here, and this incudes foreign interns doing their internship in Cape Town.
Simply:
Don’t walk alone in the streets at night.
Don’t go into places at night where you might get lost like townships and back alleys.
Act as you would in any big city like New York… don’t be stupid and go into the Bronx alone.
Watch your stuff. Lock your doors. And please don’t walk around looking like a frightened idiot or dress like a stereotypical tourist :-) (Safari suit, camera hanging round your neck, expensive jewellery and so on).
Seriously. If Cape Town really was such a dangerous place, then why are so many international students doing their internship in this great city that Cape Town is?
The basic cost if living in Cape Town whil doing your internship in Cape Town are not expensive. A quick of overview:
Accommodation: between R1000-R2500 per month.
A beer: about R12 (for one, that is).
A cocktail: about R20-R25
Food: Pizza about R40. For a simple to pretty good main course you’ll pay between R40 – R70.
Cinema: R40 (tip: Ask around for current student specials: Tuesdays are R20 at the V&A Waterfront).
Club/bar entrance fee: Depends on what’s happening inside. Sometimes you’ll get in free, other times you’ll pay between R20 – R50.
Car rental: Volkswagen Beetle hire: around R2000 a month. For a somewhat better car you’ll pay approximately R2500 a month.
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To meet other interns doing their internship in Cape Town:
In Observatory you will find many bars like Cool Runnings and Armchair Theatre packed with students.
Try Dizzy’s in Camps Bay on a Tuesday night for their Karaoke evenings (visited by many local students).
Fashion TV, Hemisphere and Roosevelt are for the well-dressed out to have a big night out.
Tiger Tiger is a trendy student club in Claremont with very good parties on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Sunday is La Med time! Here you can meet many (international) students, Camps Bay youth and surf-dudes (and dudettes). The party starts with the sun setting over the ocean in the evening. Have a good burger or pizza on the large outside veranda. You will soon meet other foreign interns too!
To avoid other foreign interns in Cape Town: Go to Rafikis, Fiction and Zula to meet other relaxed people in Cape Town.
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No unfortunately there are no elephants trampling over people and cars or with their ears flat against their heads storming towards you…but beware!
Capetonian drivers are more dangerous! Its not about how well you can drive…it’s about how fast you can react to their bad driving.
Many interns doing their internship in Cape Town choose accommodation in the following areas in Cape Town:
Inner city (Vredehoek): Beautiful area set against the mountain. Easy access to public transport.
Atlantic / Green Point / Camps Bay: Centrally situated and only a ten minute drive from town. Camps Bay has a beautiful beach and a boulevard where the good-looking wealthy people like to have sundowners.
Many houses in Observatory are accommodated for students. It is a great suburb to live in, since there are many bars and cafes for students, but it is not one of the safest neighbourhoods in Cape Town.
Gardens is a safe neighbourhood to look for your accommodation during your internship in central Cape Town. This yuppy suburb has a lively atmosphere with many cafes and restaurants.
Read more about Cape Town Suburbs.
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Marketing/PR & Sales Internship:
An unconventional Cape Town based IT solutions company, with global web based email software product Graphicmail.com, is offering an internship in Marketing Research, Sales & PR.
The interns must have a good working knowledge of the internet.
Contact us for more details with regards to this internship in the centre of Cape Town.
Duration of this internship: 6 months.
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If you come during summer you will definitely get a nice tan. Winter is less hot, with nice crisp blue skies, and some stormy days; it’s good to take a fleece or light coat.
Cape Town is known to have four seasons in one day in winter. One moment there will be major storms with lots of rain and strong winds and then suddenly in the afternoon it will clear up with great blue skies and temperatures up to 20 degrees outside.
For sure! If your coming to South Africa for an internship, the first thing you should learn is that South Africa is a second world economy, and not a third world and many things such as infrastructure, internet etc. is more available than you might expect, so you will live and survive your internship in South Africa.
It’s absolutely safe to drink water from the tap in major cities, but try to avoid this in rural areas. If you're planning to travel to places like Lesotho or Swaziland – rather stick to bottled water or boil your water before drinking it.
Ok, so you arranged your internship in South Africa and found a company to do an internship with. Excellent! When you arrive at Cape Town International the easiest way to arrange transport from the airport to Cape Town is to take a metered taxi or a shuttle service (small bus).
You could also very nicely ask a Capetonian you know (e.g. your new roommate, colleague or company supervisor) to pick you up! If you want to plan ahead you can phone or email to arrange for a shuttle service to pick you up.
Doing an internship in another country, in this case Mzansi (South Africa), is all about getting to know the country. Start with the basics of South African lingo:
- Howzit (Local slang word for ‘how are you’)
- Molo (Hello)
- Lekker (When something is nice or sounds like it could be nice)
- (K)unjani (How are you)
- Braai (Barbeque)
- Bru (Affectionate name for a male friend) e.g. Howzit my bru!
- Bakkie (Pick up truck)
- Flat (Apartment)
- Yebo (Yes)
- Hamba Kahle (Go well)
As interns we’re sure you want to get around town the cheapest way possible. Rather rent an inexpensive car.
It is not very comfy or safe to ride a bike in Cape Town with its hills, no safe cycle paths and some crazy drivers on the road. However, outside the busy city centre, Cape Town and its surroundings are perfect for mountain biking.
Are you a student from Cape Town ? Then internet magazine CapeTownMagazine.com offers a unique chance for internship programmes for people with a passion for internet writing & editing.
CapeTownMagazine.com is the largest internet magazine in three languages, English, German and Dutch.
The ideal candidate for this media internship must have a passion for online writing, travel writing, copy writing great internet and research skills and a “let’s kick ass” attitude, apart for an interest in tourism, and excellent use of the English language of course.
This is a great internship opportunity for any student who wants to enter a highly competitive media environment. The team is dynamic and have a go getter attitude, so there is no easy way out with us. The internship entails assisting the Editor in all editorial tasks and assignments, event management, article editing, preparing, rewriting, copy editing for search engines and research on new topics.
There is even a possibility for the student to enter into a permanent assistant editor job with CapeTownMagazine upon completion of internship. The duration of the internship is a minimum of five months.
CapeTownMagazine.com is BEE compliant, so the ideal person should qualify as a BEE candidate, but let it not hold you back if you’re not.
Send your CV to editor@capetownmagazine.com and include a 1 page letter about yourself and why you wish to do this internship with us.
Should you not hear from us by 29 February 2008, consider your application as unsuccessful.
