WOF News
Pledge to reduce disaster risks in communities
IDDR event On 13 October, Working on Fire joined stakeholders throughout the country to mark International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR). On this important day, stakeholders commit themselves to work together and significantly reduce disaster risks in communities....
KZN hosts early childhood development workshop
KwaZulu-Natal Working on Fire Communications Cluster, in partnership with the KZN Department of Social Development, has conducted the Early Childhood Workshop for educators in the uMngeni Municipality in Howick. The aim of the workshop was to create communities that...
Living the values and making a difference
The Maropeng Team, based on the West Rand in Gauteng, received high praise from the Mogale. City Municipality for assisting communities in this town to rebuild homes destroyed by a tornado recently. Ward Councillor Victor Molefe said in a statement that the Maropeng...
Emerging farmer has big plans
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...
Celebrating 14 years of service
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...
Deputy President praises firefighters for excellent service to country
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...
Ficksburg Team supports cancer awareness
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...
ECD educators taught fire Fundamentals
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...
Educators equipped with fire safe techniques
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...
Western District in Eastern Cape – Ready for fire season
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...
A big thank you to all our partners and stakeholders
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...
WOF lecture focuses on Integrated Fire Management Service
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...
