+ What is the difference between Core and Core Plus?

The Core course involves covering a range of life skills with some, but limited, opportunity to spend more time on particular areas of interest. The Core Plus course includes an extra 3 months at the end of the year – September to November – during which time there is more opportunity to specialize in areas of interest. For example, some of the specialization options are given below:

Marine options – sailing, scuba diving, skippering and fishing etc. This program involves a fair amount of optional out-sourced training so there are extra costs depending on the options taken. It can be done without the optional extra courses, but would then be limited to our in-house training and would not allow for recognised certification and would preclude items such as sailing, skippering and SCUBA

Game and livestock management – all in-house training based on our operation here at the Kaba game farm. Commercial beef cattle management, disease-free buffalo, game breeding and hunting, Holistic grazing management etc

Physical fitness and adventure sports – allows for some qualifications in adventure sports e.g. Canoeing SA kayak river proficiency, white water rafting guides licence. Most of the training would be in-house with relatively low cost extras for external certification. The program is developed in conjunction with Graham Carlson, our phys-ed expert who is also involved in the Core course physical program and the rock climbing.

Hunting & Guiding - We are able to prepare students for a prodessional hunters licence or a filed guides licence. The training is excellent but since we are not certified we do work with other operators if certification is required.

In all cases the specialization period involves a common denominator of activities that continue across the board and there can be some mixing and matching between the different areas of specialization. In particular the hunting and guiding enjoy natural overlap and could possibly be done in conjunction if the student was prepared to work hard and had enough background knowledge, coming into the course.

+ What extra costs might we incur?

It does vary so much according to the options taken. One can do this course with almost no extra costs, apart from a small amount of pocket money. However, there are a few instances where optional outsourced courses can be taken and these are paid for separately. In most cases we do enjoy a substantial discount on the normal prices for these courses. The usual extra courses include SCUBA diving, Category C Ocean Skippering, Competent Crew Sailing and then Field guide and Professional Hunters certification. Prices for these options can be obtained in the year of application, because they do change every year.

+ Where is the nearest airport?

Port Elizabeth is 1.5 hours away and we arrange for collection from and delivery to the airport.

+ When are the programs running?

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+ Where is Quest?

Quest Africa’s Eastern Cape campus is located on the Kaba Farm, Kaba valley, in the Alexandria district of the Eastern Cape. We are on the coast about 110km north–east of Port Elizabeth, and about 35km west of Kenton-on-Sea. Kaba Farm borders part of the Woody Cape section of Addo Elephant Park.

+ What if I am afraid of participating in some activities such as wildlife guiding or horse riding?

We encourage young men to discovering their strengths and weaknesses and work on the latter. It is sometimes expected of us to go beyond our comfort zone and face some of our fears. It is part of our responsibility to you, to create environments where you could discover more about yourself and to challenge you to do things that you would never have considered doing. Should you however feel strongly about a specific activity, you will not be forced to participate.

+ What about smoking and drinking?

Quest is designed for young adults and you will be treated as such. Drugs and alcohol abuse will not be tolerated and could result in you being asked to leave the programme without remuneration. A primary objective of Quest is to develop physically strong, fit and useful bodies, while also developing habits of healthy living and eating etc. In keeping with these objectives we therefore do what we can to discourage smoking. If you do want to continue smoking you will probably become very resilient and develop a good sense of humour.

+ May I bring my own car?

We do allow students to bring vehicles from the second term onwards, although, in general they will only be used for getting to and from Quest.

+ What certification will I receive at Quest?

You will receive a Quest graduation certificate if you complete the course with adequate performance. Quest has high standards and you will not graduate if your performance does not meet our standards. We have developed a good reputation for the quality of young people who graduate from Quest. For the Quest certicate to remain a valuable achievement, it is important that we maintain our high standards.

+ Cost of the programme

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