Celebrating 29 years of uniting nurses

Applications for Old Mutual Education Trust Scholarship Programme Now Open for the 2024 Academic Year!

Members of DENOSA are hereby informed that Applications for the Old Mutual Education Trust Scholarship Programme for the 2024 academic year are now open to all paid-up DENOSA members, their spouses, dependent children and employees of DENOSA and their dependents. Enclosed is the information on the criteria, the time-line of the process from application to … Read more

THE 2023 ICN CONGRESS CONCLUDES IN CANADA.

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) 2023 Congress, held over five days from 1 July 2023 in Montreal, Canada, was a resounding success as representatives from national nurses associations (NNA) in 130 countries and nurse leaders as well as practicing nurses gathered heads to bring about real solutions to the challenges experienced by the world’s … Read more

DENOSA supports the COSATU National Day of Action on 6 July 2023.

Media statement. Wednesday, 05 July 2023. PRETORIA – From non-implementation of collective bargaining agreements, non-filling of vacant posts due to budget cuts and corruption, to constant cutting of supplies of both water and electricity to homes and government service centres like clinics and hospitals, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is in full … Read more

COSATU Energy Summit.

COSATU is holding the two-day Energy Summit, as called for by the recent COSATU National Congress, at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg between 20 and 21 June 2023. As the country is preparing its move towards low energy transition, from coal- to low-carbon power generation, there are many areas that the trade union federation is … Read more

DENOSA statement for Youth Day: government must establish lifestyle budget to address bad outcomes of youth unemployment in SA. 

Media statement. Friday, 16 June 2023. PRETORIA – As today marks the 47th commemoration of the Youth Day, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is motivating for the establishment of a lifestyle budget that will help address the resultant ills caused by the high rate of youth unemployment in South Africa, or else … Read more

DENOSA Mpumalanga Student Movement statement on anti-youth provincial health department’s u-turn on employing newly-qualified nurses.

Media statement  16 June 2023  Mbombela – The DENOSA Student Movement in Mpumalanga is shocked and confused by the announcement made by the Mpumalanga Department of Health at the Public Health Social Development Sectoral Bargaining Chamber (PHSDSBC) meeting on 13 June that the department has no intention to employ the newly-qualified nurses who underwent the … Read more

COMRADES MARATHON 2023 UPDATE:

DENOSA GENERAL SECRETARY COMPLETES HIS 10TH COMRADES MARATHON! DENOSA General Secretary, Kwena Manamela, completed his 10th Comrades Marathon race in just over 10 hours as he crossed the finish line at 15h38 I’m Durban. He finished the Ultimate Human Race within his set target of 10 hours. The race commenced at 05h30 in Petermaritzburg and … Read more

Student nurses in Gauteng to march to Premier’s Office this morning over the issue of R171 students who are left in no-man’s land.

MEDIA ALERT Wednesday, 31 May 2023. JOHANNESBURG – The student nurses who are completing their three-year R171 nursing programme today to become general nurses at the Gauteng College of Nursing will be marching to the Premier’s Office in downtown Johannesburg to demand that their stipend continue until they write their SANC Board Exams in November. … Read more