{"id":44321,"date":"2026-02-27T03:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hyundai-automotive-south-africa-breaks-new-ground-by-teaching-high-school-girls-hands-on-automotive-skills\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:15:27","slug":"hyundai-automotive-south-africa-breaks-new-ground-by-teaching-high-school-girls-hands-on-automotive-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hyundai-automotive-south-africa-breaks-new-ground-by-teaching-high-school-girls-hands-on-automotive-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Automotive South Africa Breaks New Ground by Teaching High School Girls Hands-On Automotive Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai Automotive South Africa took practical empowerment to the classroom not through speeches, but through spanners, diagnostics tools and hands-on learning.<\/p>\n<p>At Kloof High School in Durban, the company&rsquo;s experienced and qualified mechanics hosted a Young Girls Automotive Skills Workshop where Grade 12 girl learners did not just hear about industry opportunities instead, they changed tyres, explored vehicle diagnostics and unpacked modern vehicle electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Torrance, Regional General Manager: KwaZulu-Natal at Hyundai Automotive South Africa emphasized the initiative aims to empower and affirm competence among young girls at school level.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By sharing practical automotive knowledge and basic vehicle skills with young learners early on, we are helping them build confidence and understanding,&rdquo; stated Torrance.  &ldquo;When they become active mobility consumers one day, they will be better equipped to understand their vehicles, make informed decisions and&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76567&#038;page=hyundai-automotive-south-africa-breaks-new-ground-by-teaching-high-school-girls-hands-on-automotive-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai Automotive South Africa took practical empowerment to the classroom not through speeches, but through spanners, diagnostics tools and hands-on learning. At Kloof High School in Durban, the company&rsquo;s experienced and qualified mechanics hosted a Young Girls Automotive Skills Workshop where Grade 12 girl learners did not just hear about industry opportunities instead, they changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44322,"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\/9541HyundaiKloofdiagnosis.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-44321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/9541HyundaiKloofdiagnosis.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44321","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=44321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}