Celebrating 29 years of uniting nurses

DENOSA welcomes ICN’s 10-year plan for countries to address global nursing shortage and ‘Migration Tsunami’ post- COVID-19

Media statement Saturday, 29 January 2022 PRETORIA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) welcomes the new report by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) on the global shortage of nurses and calls on the delinquent and ignorant South African government, once again, to heed the recommendations of this important report for individual … Read more

DENOSA Mpumalanga Student Movement to hold 7th Provincial Congress on 4 & 5 December in Mbombela

Media Alert Thursday, 02 December 2021 MBOMBELA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) Student Movement in Mpumalanga will hold its 7th Provincial Congress from 4 to 5 December at Nutting House Lodge in Mbombela, which will be addressed by Mpumalanga Health MEC, DENOSA Deputy General Secretary and COSATU Young Workers Forum among … Read more

DENOSA Tshwane gives Tshwane District Health authorities 14 days to respond to nurses’ grievances in health facilities

Media statement Friday, 26 November 2021 PRETORIA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Tshwane has given the authorities at the Tshwane District Health 14 days to respond to the grievances raised by the organisation on Thursday 25 November 2021 in a memorandum that was submitted on behalf of nurses in a … Read more

DENOSA Tshwane and DENOSA National Student Movement to hold joint march over nurses and student nurses’ challenges in Pretoria on 25 November

MEDIA ALERT Wednesday, 24 November 2021 PRETORIA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in the region of Tshwane and DENOSA National Student Movement will, on Thursday 25 November 2021, lead throngs of nurses and student nurses in a joint march on the streets of Pretoria to highlight the plights of nurses in … Read more

DENOSA calls on healthcare facility managers to ensure back-up generators are working in these times of extended load shedding by Eskom

PRETORIA – As power utility Eskom announced the intensification of Stage 4 load shedding from midday today until Friday at 17h00, and added by Stage 2 until Saturday, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) would once again plead with management of all healthcare facilities to ensure that back-up generators are well-serviced and fully … Read more

DENOSA has concluded its mandate collection on the current wage offer

Media statement  Monday, 26 July 2021  The Democratic Nursing Organization of South Africa (DENOSA) has concluded its mandate collection process on the current interim wage offer tabled by government on the 23rd July 2021. Our members who are critical front-line workers in the fight against COVID 19 have mandated us to accept the current offer … Read more

DENOSA worried that the dismissal of 345 nurses at Lesotho’s only tertiary facility will put more strain on South Africa’s nurses and already overstretched healthcare system

Media statement  Monday, 15 March 2021 The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is extremely concerned at the reckless manner in which Tsepong group dismissed 346 nurses, mostly specialist nurses, at Lesotho’s only tertiary healthcare facility on Friday as this move is likely to put more strain on the already overstretched South African healthcare … Read more

DENOSA North West response to the utterances of disrespect and disregard by the Taung Hospital board chairperson through a radio interview

Media statement   Monday, 15 March 2021   The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in the North West notes with great concern that the board chairperson of Taung Hospital had an interview on a national radio station and declared that nurses of Taung Hospital are guilty of ill-treating patients and the community of Taung.  He … Read more

DENOSA Limpopo calls on Limpopo Health to fix the poor state of Laastehoop Clinic in the Capricorn District.

Media statement  Thursday, 11 March 2021 DENOSA in Limpopo is appalled by the poor state of Laastehoop Clinic in Ga-Molepo in the Capricorn District which is smothered by bad odour from human faeces upon entry into the poorly-fenced yard at the clinic, as can be seen in the attached photos.   Various calls in the form of communicares … Read more