{"id":39829,"date":"2025-09-26T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/deaf-awareness-month-driving-inclusion-and-opportunity-in-the-automotive-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:50:24","slug":"deaf-awareness-month-driving-inclusion-and-opportunity-in-the-automotive-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/deaf-awareness-month-driving-inclusion-and-opportunity-in-the-automotive-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf Awareness Month: Driving Inclusion and Opportunity in the Automotive Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September marks Deaf Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the importance of inclusivity, equal opportunity, and breaking down barriers faced by the Deaf community. With South African Sign Language (SASL) recently recognised as the country&rsquo;s 12th official language, there is fresh momentum to ensure Deaf South Africans are not left behind in education, employment, and industry participation.<\/p>\n<p>The Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI), with its vast network of more than 23,000 employers and 300,000 employees in the retail automotive aftermarket alone, offers fertile ground for these opportunities. From technical roles in repair, diagnostics, spray painting, panel beating and innovation to customer-facing positions and entrepreneurship, Deaf graduates can bring unique strengths and perspectives to the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Louis van Huyssteen, National Training Director at the RMI, commends Motheo TVET College on its progress in delivering occupational qualifications in Motor Mechanics,&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74720&#038;page=deaf-awareness-month-driving-inclusion-and-opportunity-in-the-automotive-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September marks Deaf Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the importance of inclusivity, equal opportunity, and breaking down barriers faced by the Deaf community. With South African Sign Language (SASL) recently recognised as the country&rsquo;s 12th official language, there is fresh momentum to ensure Deaf South Africans are not left behind in education, employment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Cliford%20Machete%20providing%20key%20note%20address(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Cliford%20Machete%20providing%20key%20note%20address(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}