“The sad thing for me is that for a 100 years or more we have had little creches that are care centres - somewhere to keep your little boy or girl safe and off the street while mum and dad go to work - and all the creche did was let you play. “We call our ladies in for training and they send facilitators in to train them to do the whole Singakwenza programme of early childhood development. “We have partnered with Singakwenza,” Milford explained. Project Gateway also employs a social worker who works at 17 creches communities, ranging from Copesville to Elandskop. “Then Dominee Piet Dreyer and that just threw another spanner in the works, because now you have an Afrikaans influence coming in under apartheid, when you’re already doing things that you shouldn’t be doing,” Milford said.ĭuring that time, Anglicans, Methodists and Dutch Reformed church members have worked together to run a homeless shelter while the Catholic Church has been involved in supporting the Pregnancy Crisis Centre. “People were being displaced from their homes,” Milford said, “people were being shot and maimed and killed like you couldn’t believe, and Ernest Sikhane couldn’t have church services in his church in Caluza area.”Īt the time of the conflict Caluza was in the middle of the IFP-dominated Sweetwaters area and the stronghold of the ANC in the Edendale valley.Īfter telling Andrews he was unable to do church services because of the fighting, his fellow cleric said his congregants could join his church. The relationship between the founders had, however, been cemented in the late 1980s when the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands was being torn apart by the “Seven Days War”. The miracle of God for me was that formation.”
“The one is English, the one is Afrikaans and the one is Zulu and they founded this organisation under apartheid. Pointing to an image of three men in a wall on the boardroom, she said: “There are three gentlemen there - Dr Brian Andrews, Dominee Piet Dreyer and the third is Pastor Ernest Sikhane. “They forget that under apartheid what we were doing was almost illegal.” “The key for me is that people forget that era,” she added. New signs are also acceptable if they are similarly chosen to comply with BS 5499.General manager Diana Milford, who has been part of Project Gateway since 1996, said people tended to forget that the work of the organisation began before the first democratic elections. In general, these Regulations will not require any changes where existing fire safety signs containing symbols comply with BS 5499. Advice on the use of fire safety signs can be obtained from your enforcing authority for fire safety. These Regulations implement those parts of the Directive dealing with fire safety. The Regulations require, where necessary, the use of road traffic signs in workplaces to regulate road traffic. They apply to all workplaces and to all activities where people are employed, but exclude signs used in connection with transport or the supply and marketing of dangerous substances, products and equipment. Safety signs are not a substitute for those other methods of controlling risks such as engineering controls and safe systems of work. The Regulations require employers to use a safety sign where there is a significant risk to health and safety that has not been avoided or controlled by the methods required under other relevant law, provided use of a sign can help reduce the risk. This ensures that certain colours adhere to their specific meanings. SummaryĪll of our safety signs comply with the safety colour regulations. This guidance is aimed at helping employers meet their responsibilities under these Regulations.
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