The heart of the city of Cape town is one of its oldest landmarks, ‘Green Market Square’. Here you can experience walking on one of South Africa’s rare examples of cobblestone. The square’s uses have evolved from its regrettable days as a slave –trading location, to a vegetable market, a parking lot and now, an African cultural craft market!

If the question on everyone's lips prior to South Africa's staging of the FIFA 2010 World Cup was "Can we make this work?' then the resounding answer from South Africa and the world was "Yes we can!" and, indeed more accurately now, "Yes we did!"

Hundreds of thousands of fans, their now-famous Vuvuzelas in full cry, sounded the call to come together - and throughout that magical month, the visiting world and South Africans alike united in celebration and participation in the myriad World Cup festivities - not least forgetting the 64 thrilling matches of the beautiful game itself.

It is with regret that Education South Africa (EduSA) has to announce that, due to operational reasons, Shane Global head office has decided to close its centre in Cape Town. This has happened with immediate effect.

However, EduSA is pleased to advise that the 23 students, who were studying at Shane Global Cape Town, are completing their studies at another  EduSA member centre. This was arranged so as to cause as little disruption as possible for the students. There were only a small number of agents involved at the time, each of whom has been individually contacted and notified accordingly.

We wish to emphasise that this is not a reflection, in any way, on Cape Town as a destination or the industry in South Africa. All the other EduSA members continue to carry on with normal day-to-day business.

During the month of November this year EduSA hosted six agents from the Italian Association of Language Consultants and Agents (IALCA) and three journalists for a week.  The agents and journalists had a chance to visit all the participating schools (EC, LAL, IH, Inlingua, Interlink, Eurocentres, Shane Global, Kurus English and Good Hope Studies) during which time they had a question-and-answer session with each of the owners or managers.  The report from all of the centres was that this time was especially beneficial for both the agents and the schools.

Education South Africa hosts Familiarization Trip for Turkish agents

In August 2009, member schools of Education South Africa (EduSA) collaborated for the first time in hosting a Turkish Agent FAM Trip. These schools were: Good Hope Studies; Interlink; Inlingua; EC and Eurocentres. Eight agents from Turkey visited Cape Town, South Africa, for one week and were taken to the centres who had invited agents in order to visit their premises and meet with the staff there.

EduSA is officially launched in Cape Town

Education South Africa (EduSA), formally known as ELTASA, celebrated its official launch, which was held in Cape Town on 20 October 2009.

There were over 50 people in attendance, representing many different sectors of the industry and beyond: local govenment, tertiary institutions, regional tourism bodies, the City of Cape Town and other language centres who are not current members of EduSA.

2009 sees a year of transition for the English Language Travel Association of South Africa (ELTASA).

For the last 12 months, the youth travel industry in South Africa has been in the process of establishing a new association which will represent every area of youth travel in the destination – accommodation, volunteers and internships, transport and tours, and education. The new body is aligned with and based on the current WYSTC model. It is known as SAYTC – South African Youth and Travel Confederation.