Firescape your home – before it’s too late

Firescape your home – before it’s too late

Recent, destructive, wildland fires in the Western Cape have highlighted, as never before, the need for homeowners to take simple, yet carefully planned measures to protect their living environment from the threat of unwanted wildfire. Homes of every kind, from...
Kishugu: Fighting Fires with SAP S/4 HANA

Kishugu: Fighting Fires with SAP S/4 HANA

California, USA. Fort McMurray, Canada. Cape Town, South Africa. These geographic locations share an unfortunate common denominator: Fire. The brutal nature of fire has never been more evident as recent times, when South Africans watched the Mother City being ravaged...
Removing the Fear of fire

Removing the Fear of fire

Fire! The very word is enough to provoke fear in the heart of anyone who has watched a wildfire, fanned by wind, burn uncontrolled like a tornado of heat, smoke and ash, bringing death and destruction to every living thing in its path. But now, thanks to pioneering...
Blazing or grazing – the great fire debate

Blazing or grazing – the great fire debate

Fire is a natural ecological process that has occurred for millennia on the grasslands of Africa. One of South Africa’s leading fire ecologists, Prof Winston Trollope, explains: “The African continent is prone to lightning fires and has an ideal fire climate with dry...