diiVe Cape Town
Immerse. Explore. Impact.
Our Cape Town Summer internship programs are best-in-class at preparing you for true global consulting work. Share ideas, apply solutions, learn from experts and consulting professionals in Cape Town. Gain clarity, confidence, networking and the impactful experience you seek in a diverse global city, in pursuit of a cutting-edge consulting career.
What to expect
Dive into a unique, 360° life immersion in a multi-faceted city including curated diiVentures hosted by the warm, dynamic diiVe team.
Engage in personal and professional mentorship, networking, inspiring seminars that center around your purpose and career direction
Work with innovative, purpose-driven SA businesses — from sustainability-focused start-ups to established firms — to solve real-world problems that matter in teams
Explore the world of consulting, learning from ex-BCG, McKinsey and EY consultants and industry experts the foundational skills and frameworks to tackle a global project.
Proud Partners
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Cape Town
In Person
$5700
8 June - 24 July 2026
December 10th 2025
Experience an immersive 7-week consulting internship program, with a 2-week consulting training and a 5-week hands-on, project-based internship. This is a deep-dive into consulting, global work and teaming experience to build future-ready skills. Living and working in Cape Town with students from around the world adds a priceless life experience to a fast-paced program.
Elevate your employability
We equip you with foundational consulting capabilities, skills and work-life experience to enrich your leadership in a competitive marketplace.
Gain international work experience that matters
Gain international work experience that matters.
Define your constant, in the era of change
We support you in defining your own purpose, whilst giving you access to networks you need, to launch your global career.
Need help with funding
We’ve put together a range of funding opportunities to ensure our opportunities are inclusive and accessible for all.
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What is Consulting,
anyway?
Consulting is a high-growth, high-demand industry that has vast scope in terms of size and specializations. As a company consultant, you are hired for your keen problem-solving ability, your fresh perspective, and your capacity to synthesize clear takeaways from complex information. From FinTech and Innovation to Sustainability and Healthcare, becoming a skilled consultant prepares you for a vocation of world-economic change, where you’ll be able to develop solutions for clients that are actionable, sustainable and inclusive.
Read a Case Study
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The Shared Value Africa Initiative (SVAI) is a pan-African organisation and the regional partner of the global Shared Value Initiative business network that are drawn together through a common purpose: to assist and collaborate with organisations to create Shared Value and build prosperous and sustainable economies and societies through focussing on Profit with Purpose.
Develop a risk assessment tool that will aid businesses wishing to become gender - responsive in identifying hazards within the workplace that pose a threat to the physical and psychological wellbeing of gender minority employees. In addition to hazard identification, the tool will serve as a financial guide with regards to the costs inflicted on businesses should GBV incidents within a company remain unaddressed.
The team compiled a hazard identification map with 3 broad categories (physical environment, industry, organizational) and developed a scoring system based on how risky they are for physical/psychological/structural WVH. Then made a risk assessment tool that breaks down potential costs for each type of WVH. Costs were sorted into HR, legal, reputational and operational types.
The V&A Waterfront is among the premier tourist destinations and leading retail, commercial, residential and marine spaces on the African continent with a mission to manage and connect its neighborhood and societal stakeholders for the benefit of all.
Assist in scoping and assessing the economic viability, partnership, and physical space of a blue economy innovation hub (aka, Ocean Cluster House) at the V&A Waterfront.
A physical design and operational design for an Ocean Cluster at the Waterfront, developing a financial model with clear economic viability and meeting ROI targets.
A fintech company based in South Africa, IDATCo aims to revolutionize the payment industry in Africa by leveraging blockchain technology to provide secure and efficient money transfer solutions that bypass traditional payment rails.
Grow IDATC0s customer base from current 40 clients to 4,000 clients over 18 months and expand footprint into the US, Canada and UK markets with a global go-to-market strategy for its B2B business segment.
Tailored educational materials, targeted marketing, FSP collaborations, roadshows leveraging FINTRX, and a focus on testimonials, regulatory compliance, white-label branding, and transparent return statistics.
Past program highlights
Take a look at what some of our previous diiVers had
to say…
You’ll stay in fully furnished lodging in the heart of the city centre, one of Cape Town’s most vibrant and creative districts. With cafés, bars, restaurants, and cultural hotspots right on your doorstep, you’ll be just a short trip from some of the city’s best food, lifestyle, and experiences. Housing is included in the program fee. All diiVers live together in shared rooms.
Our offices are a co-working space called Workshop17, at the Watershed, located at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.
Yes, your client will write the team a reference letter.
Become a diiVer
Say yes to an exceptional experience of purpose-led projects, people and experiences that are designed to elevate you. This is diiVe. This is real life work-experience, at its most inclusive and immersive.
