Kgabo Cars helps female mechanics break stereotypes GCIS-VUKUZENZELE > By GCIS-VUKUZENZELE - 11 May 2021 - 07:48 Kgabo Cars is providing opportunities for women and youth to train in car mechanics. Image: Supplied
Isaac Boshomane, the owner of Kgabo Cars in Gauteng, opened his business to provide opportunities to youth interested in car mechanics.
The workshop, which has been operating for 20 years and offers car services, repairs and maintenance, enlists students from technical and vocational education training colleges for the work-integrated component of their studies.
“When the students complete their training, they don’t need to go anywhere to prepare for their trade test. We have a one-stop shop. There’s the training side, which we call institutional training, and the workshop side for the experience,” Boshomane says.
February 24, 2021
Peter Roodman, of Complete Specialised Retail Solutions (CSRS), discusses findings of regulatory compliance inspection with Isaac Boshomane, owner of Kgabo Cars. Isaac, being one of the RMI’s New Venture Creation program’s learners, was given an opportunity by Peter to complete workshop safety online learning courses on the CSRS learning platform.
For the last couple of years the RMI have run a highly successful New Venture Creation (NVC) programme for qualifying informal automotive businesses from predominantly townships and rural areas. To date this has seen about 40 informal businesses in the motor sector exposed to mentoring and training with the aim of becoming formal, RMI mainstream accredited businesses in three years. Ultimately the aim of the project is to reach at least 150 businesses through the RMI’s accredited contract provider, the Equal Career Services Academy (ECS).