Fulltime Courses
12 Day – professional hunting course
Twelve days deep in the bushveld — the intensive route toward qualifying as a Professional Hunter. Fieldwork from the first morning; safety and ethics in everything that follows.
1 YEAR – GAP YEAR PROGRAMME
A gap year with dust on its boots: twelve months living on a working reserve, completing a series of accredited courses — hunting, guiding and field skills — and leaving with real qualifications, not just memories.
Professional Hunter – Dangerous Game
Level 4 training for the sharpest end of the profession: guiding where the game is dangerous. For skilled professionals ready to carry the responsibility that walks with big game.
Dangerous game guiding
A 75-day accredited programme preparing site guides for real encounters in Big Five country — professionalism, safety and environmental ethics drilled until they’re instinct.
Nature guide L2
The gateway to a guiding career. Accredited at NQF Level 2, this foundation course builds the core skills to lead safe, informative nature experiences in a defined area.
nature guide L4
For experienced guides ready to go deeper. Accredited at NQF Level 4, this advanced programme builds on the foundations — richer interpretation, greater responsibility, finer guiding.
eco ranger
An emerging occupation with the whole ecosystem in its care: biodiversity conservation and monitoring, inside protected areas and beyond — plants, animals and the people between them.
Wildlife practitioner
Hands-on training in wildlife management and monitoring — the practical fieldwork behind conservation decisions, taught on a working reserve where the work is real.
Tracker
Thirty weeks. Three stages. Nine hundred hours on foot. From your first clear spoor to trailing predators — tracking taught the way the bush demands it.
Hospitality & Accommodation services
Behind every great safari stands a lodge run to perfection. This programme trains students in professional housekeeping, guest service and lodge operations for the eco-tourism industry — hands-on, standards-based, and taught on a working reserve where the guests are real and so are the elephants
Online Courses
Tourist Guiding
National tourist-guiding training is coming online. While you wait, start with our free tracking course — it’s how our students begin.
Intro To Animal Tracking
Free one-hour course – learn to read the bushveld floor. Certificate of completion included.
New Venture creation – Skills program
For entrepreneurs of the wild economy: the skills to start and run your own venture — outfitting, touring, or a business of your own making — in South Africa’s hunting and tourism industry.
Introduction to Ornithology
Learn to watch birds properly — four illustrated parts with original field photography by our specialist, Johann Roos. Free, with a certificate of completion.