Why Choose redAcademy?
Increasingly, 3-year software degrees don’t carry the same value that they used to, with organisations preferring not only software developers with experience, but ones who are trained in using their technology stack and have the work-readiness to enter the software industry – this is what makes redAcademy’s Sprinters valuable from the first day at the organisations where they are placed.
Successful candidates will enter into a one-year, MICT SETA-accredited programme where the first six months are weighted toward theory, learning career dynamics, learning business structure, and more. Learning is carried out at our client partners’ offices by professional lecturers, with support from senior, industry-leading software developers.
The second six month period sees continued learning alongside practical training, which sees candidates engaging with live development and work on leading enterprise technology solutions for major customers. This helps Sprinters experience and understand software development in the real world and enables them to enter the workplace without a skills gap between learned knowledge and experience.
And, unlike traditional academic institutions, our successful Sprinters don’t just get some experience and a certificate of achievement, they also get a job at one of our corporate partners. The benefit to these corporate partners is that candidates are skilled on their own tech stack and have the soft skills to successfully embark on a career in the tech industry.
Another difference with redAcademy is that we pay our candidates a learner allowance from day one of training.
Yes redAcademy will pay you to sprint your career!
The tuition fee is R 54 100 (VAT incl.) payable at the start of your sprint and you will earn that full amount back within one year of learning and growing with redAcademy.
Sprinter Criteria
We are looking for young South Africans who have finished matric and are ready to fast-track their careers in IT through gaining practical real-world coding experience and the work-readiness to successfully enter the tech industry. They should be positive, motivated and willing to learn, with a natural inclination toward problem-solving.
Our Sprinters (as we call our candidates) are team players who work well in harmony with others, are accountable and take pride in their work and efforts. You must be able to attend work in person at our office based campus.
Are you ready to take the first step towards Career Sprint in tech?
Course Outline
Our Career Sprint is designed to produce highly skilled graduates with holistic software developer capabilities. Sprinters undertake their training on campus, in our corporate partners’ live work environment. Rather than being purely academic in nature, redAcademy takes a holistic view toward developing young South Africans for the modern workplace, and this includes a strong focus on soft skills and work readiness.
Using the term ‘soft skills’ doesn’t mean that these are less important than hard skills – in this case coding. On the contrary, these are essential for software developers to thrive in their careers.
Sprinters are assisted with building their communication and interpersonal skills such as active listening, assertiveness, patience and accountability – all of which help them create strong team relationships, foster higher collaboration, creativity and productivity and gain work-readiness for their IT careers. In addition, the ability to receive and act on constructive feedback builds maturity and resilience and has a direct impact on confidence and perseverance.
redAcademy’s lecturing and operations expertise is tailored to our client partners’ tech stack, which gives Sprinters the opportunity to work on live projects involving the latest technologies being employed by the top companies in South Africa.
By working on our clients’ own tech stacks, Sprinters have the opportunity to learn as many languages as they can. As a starting point, it is important for young developers in 2025 to understand JavaScript, Java, Python and C# as a coding foundation. It is critical for young developers to incorporate these languages with the latest technologies and industry frameworks, examples include Docker, React.js, Node.js, GitHub, Microsoft Azure, among others.
Through our unique approach to software development training, redAcademy works closely with our corporate partners to train Sprinters on their own tech stack and operational processes. This helps Sprinters gain experience in live environments and understand software development in the real world, which enables them to enter the workplace without a skills gap between learned knowledge and experience.
Sprinter Criteria
Who is the ideal Sprinter
What’s In Store For 2026/27?
The following timeline is for our Mowbray Academy only. Timelines for new locations will be updated regularly.
Career Sprint Financing
