by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
As part of his concerted effort to break the cycle of poverty in his family, Samuel Mmolotsi, a firefighter at De Wildt Base, has become a livestock farmer. Two years ago, he bought one cow with his stipend. Mmolotsi says, “I now have six cows and intend buying...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
The Working on Fire programme celebrated its 14th anniversary this October. Khomotso Moagi, who is now a Ground Operations Manager (GOM) in Gauteng, is a veteran participant in the programme. Moagi, who hails from Bushbuckridge, recalls that when she was recruited...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
During a Public Employment Programme–Inter-Ministerial Committee (PEP-IMC ) tour to Thaba ’Nchu in the Free State on 13 October 2007, the Deputy President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, expressed his gratitude towards the firefighters from Working on...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
The Working on Fire Ficksburg team recently participated in Relay For Life, a unique event hosted by the Cancer Association of South Africa (CAN SA), and the largest cancer engagement and fundraising activity in the world! The team supported the initiative by walking...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
Fire Awareness Officers held a workshop to teach early childhood development (EC D) teachers in the Botshabelo area of the Free State about the fundamentals of fire, how fires are started, how to extinguish different types of fires, the different sources that can fuel...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
Thirty early childhood development (ECD) educators from the Eastern Cape were equipped with fire safe techniques during the early childhood development workshop presented by Working on Fire’s (WOF) Fire Awareness Training Officer, Zola Hans. Thirty early...
