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...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
More than 160 firefighters from nine Working on Fire teams in the western part of the Eastern Cape recently attended the week-long yellow card assessment held in Witelsbos. According to WOF Eastern Cape Assistant General Manager, Phumza Dyantyi, the objective of the...
by WOF Editorial Team | 6 Dec, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
As we are wrapping up the 2017 winter fire season, we would like to use this platform to convey our heartfelt gratitude to government departments, Fire Protection Associations (FPAs), landowners, members of the public and our heroes – the firefighters across the...
by WOF Editorial Team | 13 Sep, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
Mpumalanga General Manager Martin Bolton was invited by the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) to give a lecture to sugarcane farming students focusing on the control of fire. The university facilitated a sugarcane production certificate programme from 19 June to 21 July...
by WOF Editorial Team | 13 Sep, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Dr Edna Molewa, has urged communities and landowners to remain vigilant and protect themselves and their properties from the potential devastation of wildfires. Dr. Molewa further urged people to heed the daily Fire Danger Index...
by WOF Editorial Team | 13 Sep, 2017 | Profiles, WoFire News
“The first time when I arrive at the WOF Academy, we didn’t know what to expect. It was a whole new environment to us. We had mixed feelings of happiness and being scared at the same time,” says Maite Thobela, a newly appointed firefighter at Mookgophong Base....
