Celebrating 30 years of uniting nurses

DENOSA Gauteng believes emergency preparedness should improve to make healthcare services more responsive.

Media statement. Thursday, 20 July 2023. JOHANNESBURG – As yesterday’s underground gas line explosion in Bree Street in Johannesburg has become the latest disaster to hit Gauteng, which has claimed the life of a person and saw 48 citizens needing hospitalization at Charlotte Maxeke and Hellen Josephs hospitals in the city centre, the Democratic Nursing … Read more

DENOSA response to provocative Circular by National Department of Health on provision of uniform for nurses. 

Media statement.  Wednesday 19 July 2023.  DENOSA calls on the public sector nurses to wear their own clothes at work on 1 October 2023 if neither uniform is provided nor Uniform Allowance is paid…  PRETORIA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) no longer notes with shock the continuing disdain and blatant undermining … Read more

DENOSA Gauteng Gender structure meets in Pretoria

The DENOSA Gauteng Provincial Gender structure commenced its two-day Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) meeting at the DENOSA Head Office in Pretoria today, where it will be joined by local Gender structures tomorrow. Key among the issues are discussions are the well-being of nurses both in the workplace and in society, the poor state of safety … Read more

FROM OLD TO NEW: Retired nurses hand over nursing textbooks to DENOSA at Lilitha Nursing College in Gqeberha.

GQEBERHA – In a symbolic gesture of the elders in the nursing profession handing over the nursing torch to the younger generation, retired nurses and formers DENOSA leaders in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in Gqeberha officially handed over the collection of nursing textbooks to the young nursing leaders led by DENOSA at the ceremony … Read more

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