Celebrating 30 years of uniting nurses

DENOSA Northern Cape Media Statement on the Arrest of Northern Cape Department of Health Senior Officials for PPE Procurement.

Media statement. Friday, 25 August 2023. KIMBERLEY – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Northern Cape takes note of the arrest of the HOD for Health, Dr Dion Theys, and other Department of Health senior officials on the charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering and contravening the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), … Read more

DENOSA statement for Women’s Day: SA government must ratify ILO Convention 156

Media statement. Wednesday, 09 August 2023. PRETORIA – As today, 9 August, marks the commemoration of Women’s Day in South Africa, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) calls on the government to speed up the ratification of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Convention 156 to acknowledge the workers with family responsibility as well … Read more

DENOSA Western Cape statement on disruption of healthcare services due to the taxi strike.

Media statement Friday, 04 August 2023 CAPE TOWN – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in the Western Cape wishes to implore all employers in both public and private sectors to understand the volatility of the situation as caused by the taxi strike, which has also affected both the healthcare services and the … Read more

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 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

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

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