Media statement
Friday, 05TH September 2025
Mbombela – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Mpumalanga is disappointed on the Department of health for failing to appoint the nurses who graduated today the 05th September 2025.
This is the second time in the history of the province, that the government has spend state resources on training students as a means of fighting unemployment rate and further close the gap of shortage by offering the Diploma General nursing then fail to appoint them. This is more shocking as the province has only 1 nursing college which admits only 70 students in a year and the same numbers are a drop in an ocean.
DENOSA is therefore calling for:
· The Department of Health to absorb the 65 students who did the Diploma in General Nursing and graduated today and include the group that graduated in 2024.
· The department to advertise posts for the internal nurses who completed the Diploma in Nursing (Bridging courses) and the internal nurses who completed the Diploma in Nursing (General. Psychiatry & Community) and Midwifery, which completed their community service in various facilities.
· The Department to further advertise posts for the internal nurses who graduated from 2021 but are still paid as enrolled nurses although they are now professional nurses, and this is an exploitation to these qualified nurses.
As DENOSA we would like to remind the department that the internal nurses who completed the Diploma in Nursing (General. Psychiatry & Community) and Midwifery are the last cohort of nurses who did the four-year course which had psychiatry and midwifery. Therefore, not employing such nurses is depriving the community members on their constitutional right to receive comprehensive nursing care especially at the time when we see a rise in Mental Health Care Users. We further remind the department that the province has not been training midwifery in the province for over 03 years now, this again is compromising health care to pregnant woman as we have noted the number of nurses leaving the country for better wage offer.
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Issued by DENOSA in Mpumalanga.
For more information, contact:
Cyril Mdhluli, Provincial Secretary.
Mobile: 072 564 0136
