The Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi will on Thursday, 27 August 2009, take the 2009 Clean Fires Campaign called Basa Njengo Magogo, to Mamelodi, Stanza Bopape Community Hall.
The Clean Fires Campaign is aimed at reducing emissions that emanate from the burning of coal in many areas, especially in low-income settlements. The campaign is also designed to raise awareness in households that still use wood and coal as a source of energy on how to make coal fires using the basa njengo magogo methodology.
Studies conducted recently in the Vaal Triangle Airshed Priority Area have shown that household fuel burning emissions are of great concern because they pose a huge challenge to air quality in South Africa.
The basa njengo magogo methodology has been scientifically proven to reduce emissions by 80 percent. The Clean Fires Campaign is an outreach campaign which rolls out the Department of Energy’s, Basa Njengo Magogo (BnM), fire-making methodology.
The event details are as follows:
Date: Thursday, 27 August 2009
Venue: Stanza Bopape Community Hall, Extension 5 Mamelodi
Time: 09h00
RSVP:
Lizzy Suping
Tel: 012 310 3310
Cell: 083 758 0553
For any media enquiries, please contact:
Moses Rannditshenni
Cell: 082 448 2450
Issued by: Ministry of Water and Environmental Affairs
25 August 2009
Source: Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (http://www.deat.gov.za/)
