Celebrating 30 years of uniting nurses

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

DENOSA KZN wins arbitration award for 52 nurses caring for psychiatric patients in two hybrid wards at Ladysmith Hospital to be paid Danger Allowance.

MEDIA STATEMENT Monday, 29 May 2023. DURBAN – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in KwaZulu-Natal has won an arbitration award for 52 nurses working with psychiatric patients in two wards at the Ladysmith Hospital to be paid a Danger Allowance in line with PSCBC Resolution 4 of 2015, backdated to the date … Read more

DENOSA statement post- its NEC meeting

Media statement Sunday, 28 May 2023   PRETORIA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa’s (DENOSA) highest decision-making structure, the National Executive Committee (NEC), held its ordinary three-day meeting at the DENOSA Head Offices in Pretoria between 24 May and 26 May 2023, wherein it deliberated and resolved on the various current healthcare matters in … Read more

DENOSA Limpopo is concerned about community protest that destroyed water supply to five hospitals in the province. Our country is now facing a potential cholera endemic. 

Media statement. Thursday, 25 May 2023. POLOKWANE – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Limpopo wishes to warn the community of the Thulamela Local Municipality of the potential deadly dangers of shutting down the supply of water from the local dam that  has since stopped water to at least five hospitals, especially … Read more

DENOSA holds NEC meeting in Pretoria.

The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is holding its three-day ordinary National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at its head offices in Pretoria. The meeting is held in May, which is dedicated globally as the Nurses Month where nurses day celebratory and commemorative events are held throughout the country. The events are also used … Read more