Remote work Africa
Remote-work Africa is powered by Honest Travel
See South Africa while working remotely
You don’t have to quit your job to travel to Africa, you can work while you explore the Motherland.
Who we are
Remote-work Africa is powered by Honest Travel Experience as a subdivision of the company's Durban branch.
Remote-Year Africa is a concept we have been testing since 2010 to see how the internet would impact the jobs of the future. The idea of remote working is something most millennials desire and through studying the number of people remote-working from 2010 to date, the number has exponentially grown.
At Honest Travel Experience we believe in making the world accessible through affordable experiences and currently remote-work is the future and our goal is to make it affordable for people to be able to work from anywhere in the world.
We have built and empowered ourselves to be part of the future. As a company we pride ourselves in thinking innovatively and being able to fulfill our mission and vision to our clients, Remote-work Africa was a 5 year plan but 2020 has tilted the world to remote work faster than we anticipated and we are moving straight to the future.
How it works
HOW IT WORKS
​​Why Remote-Year in Africa?
Remote-Year Africa is about working and traveling and Volunteering for professionals and young people looking to make the world a better place while exploring the continents.
Join a Program with your current job or Volunteer while traveling.
Schedule a call with a Program Consultant and choose from one of our Itinerary programs. They can help you figure out what program and departure date is best for you.
If you don’t currently work remotely, don’t worry! We also have a dedicated team that can help you work with your employer to make participating on a program possible.
WHAT’S INCLUDED ON PROGRAMS
For the duration of your program, Remote Year Africa will arrange everything so you can enjoy the experience.
Travel Booking & Transportation
Our travel team covers all the logistics and reservations including transportation from the airport to your apartment.
24/7 Workspace Access
No need to look for Wi-Fi. We provide you with workspaces in every city so you can hit the ground running once you land.
Private Room Accommodations
Feel at home in every city with a private room in a fully furnished apartment with fellow travelers.
Traveling Staff & Local City Teams
Whether it’s issues with your apartment or finding a spot to eat, we have a dedicated team in every city to help you 24/7.
Community Initiatives
Each program is committed to engaging with local communities through events and positive impact projects.
Event & Side Trips
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Waste no time researching activities. The RY Marketplace is a one-stop shop with curated and unique local adventures.
Our programs
See South Africa while working remotely
We have programs of various lengths to accommodate your preferences and work limitations. Work and live in multiple cities around Africa by joining an Itinerary program.
DOWN PAYMENT: $1,000
Paid when you officially sign up for a Remote Year program to secure your spot. This down payment will allow us to book your accommodation in the city of your choice.
FEE PER MONTH: $2,000
This monthly payment will be due 30 Days before the start of your program. We also offer also offer payment plans and insights on how best you could spend your money in each city.
Onboarding Support
Our team will answer your questions provide you with the resources to prepare for your adventure.
Airport Pickup
Our team will be at the airport to pick you up and welcome you with open arms.
Accommodations
A private, furnished room in each city, usually in an apartment with fellow participants and the option to upgrade.
Local Host
Every program will be assigned to a local leader dedicated to each group as well as local staff on the ground in each city.
Local Experiences
Our sister company Honest Travel Experience will provide you with the best of local experiences in each city to help you really understand each city.
24/7 Workspace
You will have access to a working place working with your accomadtion because that our priority.
WORKSPACE
Our workspace is situated within walking distance of our accommodations in some cities even with the building. You will have an option to choose any other working space if you don’t like any of our spaces; it is all about you.
ACTIVITIES
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Explore the local scene and find out what makes every city special with its people, every activity is design to provide you with a unique experience to connect you to the people. Our sister company Honest Travel Experience are experts in local experiences and they've got you covered.
ACCOMMODATION
Our accommodations are located in very interesting locations in each city with pretty much everything you will need within walking distance.
The accommodation ranges from dorms to single and double rooms (you can upgrade or downgrade from our standard single rooms to save yourself some money :)
HONEST NEIGHBOUR
Honest Neighbour is a platform available to the Honest Travel Experience community. This community is private and available only to people we have or are hosting, the platform helps connect you to Honest Travelers from around the world.
The platform aims to make travelling affordable and accessible to people by taking away the biggest cost when travelling which is accommodation. Honest Neighbor is about accommodation swapping to allow everyone the opportunity to Travel while saving money on their rent.
We connect you to fellow travellers who have an interest in travelling to your destination and you get a chance to travel to their locations The platform facilitated house swapping between travellers from weekly travelling to monthly getaways.
YEARLY MEMBERSHIP
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Access to Honest Neighbour
Access to Activities
Access to Co-working space
Access to Network
Discount on Accommodation
Access to Transport
Complimentary dinners
Nightlife experience
Hikes and Free activities
Access to language school
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$5000
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
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Access to Honest Neighbour
Access to Activities
Access to Co-working space
Access to Network
Access to Transport
Complimentary dinner
Hikes and Free activities
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$1500
YEARLY MEMBERSHIP
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Access to Honest Neighbour
Access to Activities
Access to Co-working space
Access to Network
Discount on Accommodation
Access to Transport
Complimentary dinners
Nightlife experience
Hikes and Free activities
Access to language school
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$5000
VOLUNTEERING
Volunteering in Africa has been commercialised to a point where it has become difficult for those with pure intentions to lend a helping hand.
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A Dollar and A Dream is our NGO program that focuses on youth empowerment in South Africa. We have partnered with trustworthy charities in South Africa that could really do with some help.
You tell us how much time you have and what charity you are interested in and we will arrange everything for you from accommodation to transportation to your prefered cause.
Our Travel company will make sure you also get to explore the country while you volunteer.
VOLUNTEERING
Learn the common languages of the continent to help to easily navigate through Africa, The program is designed to help you navigate your travels and work while exploring the different countries on the continent.
Africa is big and has a thousand languages and we not trying to teach all of them relax we have a few common spoken languages you can choose from.
We have the best teacher who will be there for you when it matters the most.
“Speak to a man in a foreign language and it goes to his head, Address him in his language and it goes straight to his heart”
Nelson Mandela.
Our cities
Come share our stories and experineces
South Africa is home to some of the friendliest people in Africa sharing their history, acclaimed wine region, spirit for adventure, and so much more. You can expect dramatic cliffs diving into the water, creative and delicious food, beautiful cafes, a bustling entrepreneurial scene, diverse cultures, wild animals, breathtaking sunsets and... penguins! If you are looking for a burst of inspiration you will find it in South Africa.
Johannesburg
Johannesburg, the metropolis with the country’s tallest skyscrapers, was once just veld (bush), dotted with rocky outcrops, scrubby bush and a network of streams. Today it is a cosmopolitan city of more than four million people, one of the few of its size in the world that is not located on a river or at the sea. It is located in Gauteng, the smallest of the country’s nine provinces, which contributes approximately 40% of South Africa’s GDP.
Johannesburg has seen waves of different peoples occupying the area that is now the city: Stone Age ancestors dating back 500 000 years; Bushmen from 1 000 years ago; 500-year-old Iron Age furnaces belonging to Tswana people, and Boer farmhouses dating from the 1860s. But the city really started in 1886 when gold was discovered by Australian gold prospector George Harrison.
Soon tents and wagons appeared, to be replaced by wood and iron structures, and again replaced by brick buildings. A town was demarcated, and a large, bustling market square. Buildings got taller and taller, and today the city boasts one of the tallest buildings in Africa - the 50-storey Carlton Centre, built in 1973.
It’s been rebuilt four times
Within one century, Johannesburg has been transformed from a tented camp, a tin shanty town, four-storey Edwardian brick buildings and now, a city of modern skyscrapers.
It has earned the title ‘City of Gold'
The city of Johannesburg was formed by a gold rush in the 19th century – 4 October 1886 to be exact.
It’s home to almost half the world’s human ancestor fossils
The Cradle of Humankind is home to 40% of the planet’s human fossils, making it one of the richest archaeological sites in the world.
It’s also home to one of the world’s largest man-made forests Johannesburg is home to 10 million trees, which helps the city cope with greenhouse effects and also lowers the noise levels within the city.
It has the world’s third largest hospital
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The Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital has the ability to serve up to 3.5 million people in Johannesburg.
Cape Town
If you’re considering visiting one of the world’s best cities that has an interesting history to explore, think no further than Cape Town, situated at the tip of Africa. Popularly known as the “Mother City”, the city has some of South Africa’s most important history and culture. The city’s beauty is complemented by Table Mountain, which sits majestically in the background.
Table Mountain and its adjacent areas were home to the original Capetonians, the KhoiSan people, who inhabited the area before the first Europeans set foot in South Africa.
A visit to the Slave Lodge Museum in the city will bring you face-to-face with the slave trade history in South Africa. The slave trade started in Cape Town in 1652 after the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck. Slaves from South East Asia were brought to work on the farms after Van Riebeeck set up the supply station of the Dutch East India Company.
Away from the grim past of slavery, colonisation and apartheid, there are plenty of other things to discover in the city. The legendary Houses of Parliament has captured everything you want to know about South African politics for decades.
It hosted Cecil John Rhodes in 1890 as prime minister of the Cape Colony and was a centre for debates about the South African Anglo-Boer War, World Wars I and II and the ascendancy to power by the National Party, which created Apartheid.
The Houses of Parliament is also the place where, in 1966, the crafter of apartheid, South African prime minister Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, was stabbed to death by parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas. Today the House is still shaping the history of South Africa.
You can’t visit Cape Town and not go to Robben Island in Table Bay, which represents the country’s dark days, and is now a World Heritage site. The apartheid government created Robben Island prison, which kept one of the world’s most famous political prisoners, Nelson Mandela, locked away for 27 years. In 1994, a freed Mandela delivered his first speech as the first president of the democratic South Africa in Parliament.
Moreover, to experience the dream of Capetonians you have to visit the District Six Museum, which was founded in 1994. Through the memory cloth at the museum, you can find out about the District Six suburb that stood in sharp contrast to the government’s policy of racial segregation.
The creation of a racially mixed suburb came to a grinding halt as the area was declared a whites-only neighbourhood in 1950. Thousands of people of colour were forcibly moved to the Cape Flats.
CAPE TOWN’S NICKNAME IS THE MOTHER CITY.
Legend has it that in the 1930s a local Cape Town newspaper claimed that Cape Town was the only city in South Africa that could justly call itself a metropolis. The public took to this description to heart. The word metropolis is taken from the Greek derivative of meter or metros meaning mother and polis meaning city, the nickname of “Mother City” was born.
Some people joke that everything in Cape Town goes at a slower pace compared to Johannesburg – everything takes nine months.
ROMANCE ON TOP OF TABLE MOUNTAIN.
Table Mountain is 1,860 meters high and it is estimated that every month at least two couples get engaged on top of Table Mountain.
THE CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE USED TO HAVE A SEA VIEW.
Back in the day, the Castle of Good Hope used to be on the coastline, hence the name ‘Strand Street’ (‘strand’ means ‘beach’ in Dutch and Afrikaans). Land reclamation to create Foreshore and the current harbour caused the coastline to move to the west.
Durban
Sprawling along the coast, Durban is overlooked to the south by the Bluff (hills separating the landlocked bay from the sea) and stretches across the Umgeni River to the heights of Durban North. Its civic and business centre is on flat land, rising gently to the slopes of the white residential district of the Berea, a ridge of hills encircling the harbour and beach.
Durban’s numerous parks include the Botanic Gardens with its orchid house, Jameson Park and its rose gardens, and Snake Park with its collection of poisonous reptiles. The city is home to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, formed in 2004 through the merger of the University of Durban-Westville (founded 1961), originally for Indian students (although non-Indians were admitted from 1979), and the University of Natal (founded 1910).
There are several museums and black and Indian markets. Cultural and sporting events are held in Moses Mabhida Stadium, part of the larger King’s Park Sporting Precinct, a commercial, retail, and leisure district.
Development of Durban’s harbour, one of the world’s major commercial ports, began in 1855. Serving the Witwatersrand industrial region, it is a major container port and point of entry for bulk raw materials, capital goods, and industrial equipment.
Minerals, coal, sugar, and grain are exported, and oil is refined and piped to Johannesburg. After World War I Durban changed from a prim Victorian town to a modern metropolis with skyscrapers and multistoried buildings
It is the headquarters of South Africa’s sugar industry and a center of highly diversified manufacturing activity. Tourism is important and is based on the city’s proximity to KwaZulu-Natal’s game and nature reserves and on the beaches and their facilities, such as an esplanade and an oceanarium.
Durban (with adjacent Pinetown) has a larger Indian population than white; the area contains one of the largest concentrations of Indians in South Africa. Ntuzuma, Umlazi, and Embumbulu districts to the immediate west were developed as black (mostly Zulu) commuter suburbs. Many blacks were moved from Durban to these areas in the late 1970s under apartheid policies.
Durban is administered by the Ethekwini municipality. Pop. (2001) city, 536,644; municipality, 3,090,127; (2007 est.) municipality, 3,468,086.
Durban was originally called Rio de Natal by Vasco da Gama when he visited in 1497. Natal in Portuguese means “Christmas.” Durban later received its name from a somewhat controversial governor from the Cape colony, Sir Benjamin D’Urban
Durban has the busiest container port in Africa and is the 9th largest harbour in the world.
The Gateway Shopping Centre has more than 350 stores, 70 restaurants, 18 movie theatres, an IMAX theatre, an indoor climbing rock and even a skate park designed by Tony Hawk making it the biggest shopping center in Africa.
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The Bunny Chow is typically representative of Durban – a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry – although the origin of its name is a mystery. It was thought to originate due to the ease of being able to eat it while on the move.
Durban is warm all year round the lowest it gets in winter in about 10 degrees.
