Dear Portfolio Committee on Health,

My name is Kim Dlamini, I am a married 35 year old mother of three, a wife, and before my life was taken from me, a nurse.
In January 2004, I commenced the D4 nursing program which was facilitated by the department of health, and with great difficulty, completed it, graduating in 2013. One great hinderance in completing my studies at the time, was the fact that I was drugged and raped on the hospital premises on 16 July 2011. The perpetrators were collogues, and were allowed to stay on, and carry on working, despite everything that happened. I managed to complete my studies, and graduate despite this, but I began experiencing problems in 2013, during my community service, had a breakdown, and subsequntly failed to complete my community service.
In 2014, I had began attending meetings with the department of health, in order for me to complete my community service, and obtain the qualification I had worked so hard for. I was told by the community service coordinator that I would be able to come back and complete my community service, but to this day, every time I go to them, I am required to go more places, and do more things like acquiring my file from my previous hospital I worked at, tasks given to me by the provincial coordinator, tasks that cost time, and money that I do not have. I am writing you, as I have been trying to reenter the program with absolutely no assistance even from my union. I have approached the provincial coordinator ad nauseum, but I recieve no assistance from that office. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I got wind of a restoration period for nurses, I contacted the co ordinator, but she said that there was no restoration, that she was unaware of such a program ever existing.
After years of trying, even after being told that I just needed to submit my ID copy, and that I could return, I have been, and am being given the run around by the provincial coordinator, and even absconded.

I am writing this letter, simply to request at least a hearing. I don't know of any labor practice where I can just be fired with no hearing, and this does feel I worked very hard for this qualification, and am now in a situation where I am begging for scraps, where I worked hard for a qualification.
I am requesting a hearing so that if I lose everything I worked so hard for, at least I would know what the allegations are that were brought against me. At this point I believe that my termination was unfair, and no longer know who to approach, hence the desperate tone of this message.
Your assistance in this would be greatly appreciated.
Kim Dlamini