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Lindeka Minya, one of the 600 Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members, imparts her knowledge on how to safely light a stove without using a match stick during the launch of the Safer Paraffin Stoves in Tembisa on Tuesday, December 8.
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QONDIS ISHISHINI LAKHO
VOL.2 - #25 10 - 18 DECEMBER 2015
R.I.P THERESA RAMASHAMOLE
DECEMBER EVENTS AND MORE
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INTRODUCING THE SUNSTREAM™ PANEL
ON December 8, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality together with the Departments of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), launched the Safer Paraffin Stoves campaign at Vusimuzi Informal Settlement in Tembisa. As part of the campaign, which is intended to raise awareness on the possible dangers when using paraffin stoves, over 1 500 new safer stoves were handed to community members. In meeting government half way to ensure safety in the informal settlement, Vusimuzi residents came in numbers to hand over their old hazardous and non-compliant stoves, in exchange for the new safer ones.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, highlighted that the State is serious about safeguarding residents’ lives by excluding the suppliers of poor quality stoves that tend to contribute to the fires that often destroy informal settlements across the country. “Each year over 200 000 people are affected by deaths caused by fires, mostly due to noncompliant appliances that are sold as a money making scheme at the expense of people’s lives and this has to stop,” said Davies. “Government, together with the National Consumer Commission and the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications have tightened our grip to find and stop suppliers of non-compliant stoves that are illegally shipped into and manufactured in the A technological revolution has given rise to the only device that charges any mobile phone with direct light from the sun. Recently, the World Panel SunSteam™ was launched for the first time in South Afcountry, he continued. THE STORY CONTINUES ON PAGE 2
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