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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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....