{"id":44812,"date":"2026-03-16T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motoring-mavericks-shows-young-south-africans-a-new-way-into-the-automotive-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:44:15","slug":"motoring-mavericks-shows-young-south-africans-a-new-way-into-the-automotive-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motoring-mavericks-shows-young-south-africans-a-new-way-into-the-automotive-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Motoring Mavericks shows young South Africans a new way into the automotive industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

With youth unemployment remaining one of South Africa’s biggest challenges, the National Automobile Dealers’ Association (NADA) has launched Motoring Mavericks, a movement designed to show young people that car dealerships offer far more than sales or mechanical jobs.<\/p>\n

Instead, modern dealerships are fast-moving business environments where young professionals can build careers in marketing, finance, digital systems, customer experience, business management and technical specialisations.<\/p>\n

Many young South Africans don’t realise that today’s dealerships operate as full-scale businesses powered by technology, data, innovation and strong customer service. They need digitally savvy marketers, finance professionals, HR specialists, business managers and skilled technicians to keep operations running smoothly.<\/p>\n

“As South Africa continues to battle high youth unemployment, we want to open young people’s eyes to the real career opportunities inside the automotive…<\/p>\n

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With youth unemployment remaining one of South Africa’s biggest challenges, the National Automobile Dealers’ Association (NADA) has launched Motoring Mavericks, a movement designed to show young people that car dealerships offer far more than sales or mechanical jobs. Instead, modern dealerships are fast-moving business environments where young professionals can build careers in marketing, finance, digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44813,"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\/Motoring.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Motoring.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44812","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=44812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}