by WOF Editorial Team | 7 Mar, 2017 | Profiles
Former firefighters from the Carletonville Base, Mahlomola Leeto and Gladwin Style, are using skills learned during their time in the programme at their new jobs. They are employed as brushcutter and chainsaw operators by the Amaduala Company . “We did training in...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Mar, 2017 | Profiles
Katleho Mahlaba, a Working on Fire firefighter from the Bethlehem Base, recently walked away with a gold medal in the K1M category of the South African Junior Slalom Canoe Championships. The annual championship was held in Clarens in the Free State on the Ash River....
by WOF Editorial Team | 5 Mar, 2017 | Fire Awareness
The Free State Working on Fire Dewetsdorp Team celebrated Wetlands Month in February at Morojaneng Park. Various stakeholders, such as members of the Community Work Programme (CWP), Department of Health and Mangaung Metro Municipality, attended the event. The Working...
by WOF Editorial Team | 4 Mar, 2017 | Profiles
Lunga Sam is a firefighter at the Molteno Team who was recruited in 2015. The 29-year-old had to leave school in 2007 after doing Grade 11 due to financial difficulties. “Getting a job was not easy because I did not have matric, a qualification or skills. But I had...
by WOF Editorial Team | 3 Mar, 2017 | Profiles
Nomawabo Saul, the Base Communications Representative (BCR ) of the Tsitsikamma Team in the Eastern Cape, says that if there is one thing that she has learned about working with people, it is that it can be challenging, but your attitude determines how you make it...
