{"id":45353,"date":"2026-03-26T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bridgestone-sa-helps-62-learners-in-madibeng-obtain-drivers-licences-through-a-new-youth-initiative\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:30:57","slug":"bridgestone-sa-helps-62-learners-in-madibeng-obtain-drivers-licences-through-a-new-youth-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bridgestone-sa-helps-62-learners-in-madibeng-obtain-drivers-licences-through-a-new-youth-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone SA helps 62 learners in Madibeng obtain driver\u2019s licences through a new youth initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgestone South Africa has launched Project Turnkey, a nine-month initiative that will support 62 grade 12 learners from five secondary schools in Madibeng Local Municipality, North West Province, in obtaining their learner&rsquo;s and driver&rsquo;s licences at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will guide learners from Mogale Secondary School, Thaba Morula Secondary School, Eletsa Secondary School, Michael Modisakeng Secondary School and Mothotlung Secondary School through learner&rsquo;s licence theory training, road safety education and practical driving lessons, culminating in their official driver&rsquo;s licence tests.<\/p>\n<p>Brits is home to Bridgestone&rsquo;s manufacturing plant in Southern Africa, a facility that has anchored the local economy and employed generations of residents. Yet youth unemployment in the Madibeng Local Municipality &ndash; which includes Brits &ndash; remains above 40%, according to the Statistics South Africa Community Survey 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Nationally, 43.8% of South&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76871&#038;page=bridgestone-sa-helps-62-learners-in-madibeng-obtain-driver-s-licences-through-a-new-youth-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgestone South Africa has launched Project Turnkey, a nine-month initiative that will support 62 grade 12 learners from five secondary schools in Madibeng Local Municipality, North West Province, in obtaining their learner&rsquo;s and driver&rsquo;s licences at no cost. The programme will guide learners from Mogale Secondary School, Thaba Morula Secondary School, Eletsa Secondary School, Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45354,"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\/Screenshot%202026-03-26%20102400.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-45353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-north-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-03-26%20102400.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353","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=45353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}