Car Feature: Youth Month – creating career pathways for young South Africans through the auto industry
Relebogile Mabotja's Car Feature · 16 June 2026 · 17m
Speaker 1: Seven notes the car features. Speaker 2: It is time for our car feature this afternoon. It is a Tuesday, and I'm Speaker 2: looking forward to the conversation. Of course, the show today has been youth themed, so Speaker 2: we've been covering many of our features on the show according to the youth and Speaker 2: what the youth need. And I'm excited for the conversation that we have in this Speaker 2: afternoon in a very important industry in our country, and that is the automotive sector. Speaker 2: We are speaking about creating career pathways for young South Africans through the automotive industry. Speaker 2: And my guest for that conversation is Jean Ahnicorm, the National director at SUMRA. He Speaker 2: joins us in the studio. Jean, good afternoon, Thank you for. Speaker 1: Your time, Good afternoon, Thanks for having me. Speaker 2: It's always an interesting conversation for me when we speak about the automotive space, because Speaker 2: I mean, there's many careers in the automotive space, and I can imagine there's many Speaker 2: young people who are interested in those careers. But do young people know just how Speaker 2: vast this space is and the number of careers and the types of careers that Speaker 2: are available to them. Speaker 3: I don't think so, and I think You raise a very good point there, right, Speaker 3: there's genuinely a misconception in the space that if you're going to become a mechanic, Speaker 3: it's going to be a dirty job, and yes, that's the thing that you're going Speaker 3: to be doing for the rest of your life. And the reality is is not Speaker 3: that. If you take on any one…
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