{"id":44257,"date":"2026-02-25T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rmi-and-hwk-erfurt-launch-three-year-e-mobility-skills-partnership-for-south-africas-tvet-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:09:07","slug":"rmi-and-hwk-erfurt-launch-three-year-e-mobility-skills-partnership-for-south-africas-tvet-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rmi-and-hwk-erfurt-launch-three-year-e-mobility-skills-partnership-for-south-africas-tvet-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"RMI and HWK Erfurt launch three-year e-mobility skills partnership for South Africa\u2019s TVET sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) and the German Chamber of Crafts Erfurt (HWK) announced the start of a new three-year structured TVET&ndash;HWK partnership project focused on skills development for e-mobility, at the RMI offices in Midrand yesterday, Tuesday 24 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, implemented by Sequa and managed by HWK, the project will run until the end of 2028 with the aim of strengthening South Africa&rsquo;s readiness for the transition to electric and hybrid vehicle technologies. <\/p>\n<p>The launch event brought together key South African authorities and stakeholders, including the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO), the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), merSETA, and three participating TVET colleges namely College of Cape Town, Port Elizabeth TVET College and Tshwane South TVET College.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing delegates at the launch, HWK Erfurt CEO, Mr Thomas Malcherek,&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76556&#038;page=rmi-and-hwk-erfurt-launch-three-year-e-mobility-skills-partnership-for-south-africa-s-tvet-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) and the German Chamber of Crafts Erfurt (HWK) announced the start of a new three-year structured TVET&ndash;HWK partnership project focused on skills development for e-mobility, at the RMI offices in Midrand yesterday, Tuesday 24 February 2026. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, implemented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44258,"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\/From%20left%20Goodman%20Mnisi%20(Tshwane%20South%20TVET%20College)%2c%20Kim%20Matikinca%20(PE%20TVET%20College)%2c%20Thomas%20Malcherek%20(HWK)%2c%20Alfred%20Ramahlape%20(College%20of%20Cape%20Town).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/From%20left%20Goodman%20Mnisi%20(Tshwane%20South%20TVET%20College)%2c%20Kim%20Matikinca%20(PE%20TVET%20College)%2c%20Thomas%20Malcherek%20(HWK)%2c%20Alfred%20Ramahlape%20(College%20of%20Cape%20Town).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44257","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=44257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}