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South Africa Shines in Stellantis Student Awards

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South Africa Shines in Stellantis Student Awards:

Adrielle Naidoo, daughter of Stellantis South Africa Collin Naidoo has won the coveted Sergio Marchione Award and notches up the family’s second consecutive year of recgnition in the Stellantis Student Awards.

“It is initiatives such as this that provides incredible depth to Stellantis’ approach to sustainability,” said Managing Director of Stellantis South Africa, Mike Whitfield. “Congratulations to our extended families: we are proud to have you as part of ours.”

The Stellantis Student Awards have strong historical roots in the organisation and a modern vision: to help support our next generation of trailblazers. Built on the foundation of sustainability and continuous learning, the awards celebrate student children of Stellantis employees who show promise in changing the world for the good of all.

Open to permanent employees’ student children under the age of 26, applicants were required to submit their school results and an essay on offering affordable and accessible decarbonised mobility. Applications were judged on creativity, grades, and the student’s involvement in an array of extramural activities.

More than 1,200 high school and college graduates from around the Stellantis world entered the company’s awards programme, which searches for children of employees who recently graduated high school or university and who demonstrated outstanding academic excellence, a commitment to community involvement, and admirable personal motivations.

All 2024 award recipients were selected based on the same global weighted criteria. The awards were made today at an event hosted by Stellantis Chairman, John Elkann.

This award represents visionary young leaders leveraging their education for a better world; exactly the kind of high-potential talent needed at Stellantis. Each winner will be invited to interview with Stellantis leadership to secure a position in the Company supporting the needs of their corresponding region. Depending on their experience and skillset, this position could be an internship/apprenticeship, full-time position, or special project support.

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The Randlord Mansions: History

The history of these mansions is also a story of urban warfare and preservation. In the 1960s and 70s, as Johannesburg expanded, many of the original Parktown estates were ruthlessly demolished to make way for the M1 Highway and the massive concrete campus of the Wits University Medical School. The “Parktown War” saw heritage activists fighting the bulldozers to save what remained of the city’s architectural soul. Today, several of the surviving mansions serve as corporate headquarters, schools, or museums, stripped of their private domesticity but preserved as monuments to a gilded age.

Interestingly, these mansions also played a secret role in the city’s political evolution. It was in the drawing rooms of Parktown that the “progressive” mining elite would meet to discuss the future of the country, often finding themselves at odds with the more conservative Boer government. Lady Florence Phillips, in particular, used her influence to found the Johannesburg Art Gallery, insisting that a world-class city needed world-class culture, not just gold bars. Today, walking the “Heritage Trail” through Parktown offers a haunting contrast; you stand in the quiet, manicured gardens of the victors, looking down at the pulsing, crowded city that their gold mines created. It is the ultimate “view from the top,” a reminder that the extreme wealth of Sandton today has its DNA rooted in the stone-and-timber palaces of the 1900s.