by WOF Editorial Team | 17 Jun, 2017 | Profiles
“Education is the key to success and without education life is never easy,” says Mlungisi Ndamase, a former firefighter from Port St. Johns (PSJ) in the Eastern Cape. Ndamase grew up in the rural area of Port St. Johns and has always been eager to better his life. “I...
by WOF Editorial Team | 4 Apr, 2017 | Profiles
The Mpumalanga provincial office has welcomed the first female Ground Operations Manager (GOM), Thabiso Mohale. Mohale worked as a regional manager in Limpopo for three years and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Limpopo. She says although...
by WOF Editorial Team | 26 Mar, 2017 | Profiles
Twenty-five-year-old Molebogeng Pelele is a successful candidate who is now at Molopo Base in the North West. Pelele matriculated seven years ago and then did a six-month learnership in disaster management with the fire brigade. That’s when her interest in...
by WOF Editorial Team | 8 Mar, 2017 | Profiles
Victor Khulwana, a Type 1 Crew Leader of the Mdala Team, says one of the most important human rights is being able to have a source of income and afford to buy food. He says he starved prior to democracy, because programmes like Working on Fire did not exist to...
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....
