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Hospitals and nurses must start discussing and planning about the care, isolation and PPE’s… BY SINDISWA NGCOBO – National Coordinator at DENOSA Bargaining, Organising and Campaigns (BOC) Unit. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has just declared monkeypox (mpox) as a public health emergency of international concern under the International Health Regulations due to the growing … Read more

Dear DENOSA member. It has come to DENOSA’s attention that many nurses are still not sure whether they will get all their retirement savings when they resign after 1 September 2024, DENOSA will be hosting a Webinar on the Two-Pot system on Friday 2 August 2024 between 09h30 and 12h00, where this system will be … Read more

The DENOSA International Relations Committee, the Sub-Committee of the organisation’s National Executive Committee (NEC), held its scheduled meeting at the DENOSA Headquarters in the country’s capital, Pretoria between 25 and 26 July. Part of the committee’s work includes looking at the global and regional developments in both nursing and the world of work. It also … Read more

The Marilyn Lahana Trust Caring Award is presented annually to recognise outstanding members of the nursing and midwifery professions who show a special quality of caring in relation to their patients and colleagues. The award commemorates Marilyn Lahana, a  Johannesburg nurse who died in 1996 after  contracting the Ebola virus from a patient. A  number … Read more

Dear DENOSA member, Kindly note that Applications for the Old Mutual/DENOSA Bursaries for the 2025 academic year have opened as of 1 July 2024 and will close on 31 August 2024. This is an opportunity for DENOSA members, DENOSA staff members, their spouses, and dependents to apply for financial support for career studies of their … Read more

Dear Denosa member. Please be reminded that, as per the 2023 public sector wage agreement, the wage increment for the 2024/25 financial year for public sector employees from Levels 1 to 12 will be CPI. On 19 March 2024, DPSA confirmed at the PSCBC that the CPI is 4.7%. This means government employees will receive … Read more

The 68th Annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), which is the United Nations’ largest gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment is taking place between 11 and 22 March in the United States under the theme “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty … Read more

DENOSA is attending a two-day workshop on protecting the digital rights of workers in this fast-changing and digitized environment, courtesy of the Public Services International and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (trade union competence centre). The workshop is held in Dunkeld West in Johannesburg. With the increasingly digitalised society in all spheres, there are also endless infrengments of … Read more

The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) hosted its sister organisation in the neighbouring country Botswana, the Botswana Nurses Union (BONU), at the DENOSA Head Office in Pretoria on 29 February. Part of the visit by BONU was the exchange of information and ideas on nursing matters between the two countries, as well as … Read more