Johannesburg: The Retail Motor Industry Organisation was one of the exhibitors at this year’s South African Automotive Week which took place from the 14 – 17 October at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. Beyond showcasing what the RMI as a body has to offer, the RMI hosted the semi finals of the national WorldSkills competition for the three motor trade skills.
“The RMI cares and has a vested interest in automotive industry’s future skills. The WorldSkills competition is a great initiative to showcase and attract school leavers to pursue automotive career as artisans is in line with our goal to elevate the status of trade career awareness and development. Joining forces with like-minded industry partners to host this competition is one way we are supporting the “Decade of the Artisan” drive in South Africa” says Jakkie Olivier, CEO at the RMI.
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Spray Painting |
Autobody Repairs |
Automotive Technology |
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Ntebaleng Seema |
Bongani Nkosi |
Willem Nel |
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Rabelani Malema |
Thabiso Mohale |
Jason dos Santos Maraou |
These finalists will be going on to the national finals, which will be hosted at the AutoMechanika Johannesburg Expo in May next year. One finalist from each discipline will then earn the honour of representing South Africa in the 2015 WorldSkills competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Andre Vermeulen, Technical Delegate for WorldSkills South Africa “This is the first time that the three motor skills have been included as an integral part of a bigger event exposing the participants to the general flow of the passing public. Hopefully its attraction has raised awareness that will promote and facilitate through cooperative action a national awareness of the essential contribution skill excellence can make to the achievement of economic success and personal fulfilment.”
“We see WorldSkills as a mechanism to address skills shortage by attracting the youth to technical careers. We set out to replicate the setting of the international WorldSkills competition standards at the national trials. We needed stakeholders and partners to achieve our objective and we were fortunate in the like-mindedness of the sponsors. We had mixed emotions about embarking on this initiative at this scale and the results were absolutely phenomenal.” says Marwaan Davids, National Training Director at the RMI.
The event would not have been possible without the generous sponsorships from; BASF, Bulldog, 3M, Aer-o-Cure, SAA, Gondolier, Imperial, Bidvest, Barloworld, KGABO Cars, VOLVO SA, Nissan SA, Leaderquip, Dent Digest, ABS, Santam and SAMBRA.
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