DENOSA GAUTENG RESPONDS TO FRIENDS OF THE YOUTH LEAGUE UNDERMINE OF NURSE LEADERS
DENOSA Gauteng notes with dismay and contempt the attack on Comrade Sdumo Dlamini by the friends of the youth league in a statement titled "Friends of the youth league respond's to Sister Sdumo Dlamini"
We view this attack not only as an attack to Comrade Sdumo Dlamini but as an attack to the entire nursing profession and we condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms and we are disturbed by such a reckless and disrespectful statement from Floyd Shivambu and friends of the youth league.
It is reckless and disrespectful for this grouping to undermine Comrade Sdumo and continuously refer to him as "sister Sdumo" in a sarcastic and disrespectful manner that undermines the nursing profession and nurses, suggesting that Nurses must only focus on health care issues and leave politics alone is cheap.
We want to remind Floyd and his grouping that Nurses have been active and involved in the struggle for the liberation for a long time before he was born and played a role in achieving the democracy that he enjoys today, the likes of Lillian Ngoyi, Charlotte Maxeke, Cecilia Makiwane and Albertina Sisulu etc. All these nurses have shown that nurses are capable of leading and contributing positively to the community and country at large.
Suggesting that the only struggle Cde Sdumo has been exposed to is fighting among fellow sisters and midwifes is silly, baseless and vindictive and further gives the impression that nurses only fight among themselves in hospitals and don't face struggles and bad working conditions. This statement in nature further discourages young males from joining the profession because of ill discipline and careless statements made by reckless leaders like Floyd and his grouping.
We want to call on Shivambu and his grouping to retract this reckless statement and speak on the issues and leave the nursing profession out of their issues, as this doesn't build the profession and but give it a bad name and undermines it.
Statement issued by Simphiwe Gada, Denosa Gauteng, August 27 2012
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