HELLO, WORLD!

LOOKING after the children of a well-off family, harvesting fresh produce on a sprawling farm, teaching English to kids in a foreign country, working at a busy hotel – many South Africans have memories of such gap-year jobs and the opportunity they offered for an adventure abroad, living and working in countries far from home.

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The “working holiday” was a chance to travel and experience new things while earning money before potentially settling down to study or getting a steady job back home.

Then Covid-19 came along and the world shuttered its borders. But with the arrival of vaccines and milder variants, young South