Latest WOF News
Communicating fire education through sports
The Witelsbos Team in the Eastern Cape together with the Fire and Rescue Unit from the Koukamma Municipality educated more than 200 school kids recently about the dangers of fire. A variety of sporting code activities took place at the Woodland Soccer Field and...
Training in Industrial Relations to create productive work environment
The Head of the Department of Industrial Relations, Monde Maqula, has come up with an initiative of empowering Working on Fire managers to be able to deal with the issues of discipline and disputes in the working environment. Maqula’s department has conducted training...
Working on Fire is one of the South African government’s marque programmes
An upbeat Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa praised Working on Fire for instilling discipline in young people to love and ultimately take care of the environment. The Deputy President was speaking at the official opening of the 14th World Forestry Congress (WFC) at the...
Eastern Cape fire hotspot has no more fires
A fire hotspot in recent years, Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape, has recorded no fires in the current fire season thanks to the fire awareness education by Working on Fire. Community Fire Awareness Officer, Wongama Copiso, applauded the community of Gwiligwili for...
HAT in a quest to save national tourist landmark
The HAT Team in the Ntsubane Forest Station in the Eastern Cape is hard at work in clearing out alien invasive plants. It was in 2013 when devastating fires swept through the Mkozi Valley in Western Pondoland. Situated in this valley are two spectacular waterfalls...
AU Chair applauds WoF for creating employment for women participants
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union, during her opening speech at the World Forestry Congress thanked WoF for having the highest ratio of women employed in the veld and forest fire fighting services throughout the world. “I am told that thirty...