Celebrating 30 years of uniting nurses

Update on 2022/23 outstanding wage talks at PSCBC.

As the public sector trade union that is admitted at the PSCBC, DENOSA (SAMATU, SAEPU and PAWUSA), which had boycotted the 2023/24 wage negotiations while the 2022/23 negotiations had not been concluded finally reached an agreement with the employer to include the outstanding 2022/23 negotiation issues into the 2023/24 talks. The agreement between the parties … Read more

AFRICA’S NURSES’ ORGANISATIONS CONVENE IN PRETORIA FOR ICN’s LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING:

African nurses’ organisations five-day training in Pretoria seeks to bring a chair for nurses at various policy-making tables…’  PRETORIA – National Nurses Associations (NNAs) from the African region commenced their five-day training on the International Council of Nurses’ (ICN) Leadership For Change programme on February in Pretoria, which seeks to capacitate leaders of the nursing … Read more

Public Sector unions picket in Parliament and National Treasury offices ahead of Austerity Budget Speech   

 Public Sector unions held two pickets outside the makeshift Parliament at the Cape Town City Hall in Cape Town as well as outside the National Treasury offices in Pretoria respectively on Wednesday ahead of the delivery of the Austerity Budget by Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwane.  Workers made their voices heard on the day as hundreds … Read more

Public sector unions to brief the media on next course of action on public sector wage talks debacle

MEDIA ALERT Tuesday, 14 February 2023 The public sector trade unions at the Public Sector Coordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) will convene a media briefing at the PSCBC offices at 11h00 on Thursday 16th February 2023, where they will be making an announcement on the joint unions’ next cause of action following the failure by government … Read more

Komani floods highlight the need for close private/public healthcare partnership and urgent need for NHI – DENOSA Eastern Cape. 

Media statement  Thursday, 09 February 2023  GQEBERHA – The devastating floods that have wreaked havoc in Komani have highlighted the urgent need for tight collaborations between private and public healthcare sector as well as the urgent need for the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) without any delays for the equal benefit of all … Read more

DENOSA NEC meeting reconvenes in Pretoria.

DENOSA’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting has reconvened at the DENOSA Head Offices in Pretoria on Thursday 9 February 2023, where it is due to conclude its business after it adjourned in December due to many programmes that needed its attention. The NEC is the highest decision-making structure of DENOSA in-between congresses and its role … Read more

DENOSA expects SONA to focus on NHI and deteriorating healthcare services in SA.

Media statement Tuesday, 07 February 2023 PRETORIA – As the state President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament on Thursday, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is expecting the President to put in a lot of focus on the National Health Insurance (NHI) plans as well … Read more

DENOSA Gauteng to report the throwing of urine at workers at Calcot Dlephu Clinic to SAHRC for further action. 

Media statement Thursday, 26 January 2023  JOHANNESBURG – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Gauteng has noted with concern and disgust the incident at Calcot Dlephu Clinic in Ekurhuleni, where a patient threw what is believed to be urine at the staff who were eating at the time and will report the … Read more

DENOSA Student Movement believe Limpopo Health MEC could turn her energy to progressive change instead of theatrics.

Media statement Thursday, 26 January 2023.  PRETORIA – Given the latest trending video of MEC of Health in Limpopo, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, where she once again plays to the gallery by humiliating a group of nurses at Rethabile Clinic in Polokwane, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa’s Student Movement (DENOSA) believe the MEC should … Read more

DENOSA KZN disgusted by two community protests which attacked nurses in two facilities on Wednesday 

Media statement  Thursday, 19 January 2023 DURBAN – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in KwaZulu-Natal condemns in the strongest terms the two incidents where community members were protesting in different places yesterday, when they decided to attack nurses as part of their protests in Nkandla and Cato Manor respectively. DENOSA KZN calls … Read more