EWN reports that the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) in KwaZulu-Natal has threatened to withdraw all its members in areas where their safety was no longer guaranteed, if nothing was done to improve the situation by 31 August.  

This follows the hijacking, robbery and abandoning of three nurses in the bush while on their way from an outreach programme last week.  Their bus was apparently stopped by a private car in Empangeni where two hijackers robbed them of their belongings.  Denosa’s provincial secretary Cassim Lekhoathi said that, while they have made attempts at providing security, it was the employer’s responsibility to safeguard their members.

• Based on a report by Koketso Motau at EWN
• See too, Nurses ambushed and robbed in Ntambanana area, near Empangeni, at Daily News
• Read Denosa’s press statement at Cosatu Today

Get other news reports at the SA Labour News home page