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A list of current public holidays in South Africa: [ 1] Commemorates the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. [ 3] Commemorates the Soweto uprising led by secondary school students in 1976. [ 3] Commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to petition against pass laws. [ 3]
Independence Day. 3 July. 1944. Nazi Germany. The liberation of Minsk after several years of German occupation in 1944. Two other independence days – 25 March (proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918) and 27 July (independence from the Soviet Union in 1990) – are commemorated unofficially.
The National flag largely represents peace and unity. The Day of Reconciliation is a public holiday in South Africa held annually on 16 December. The holiday came into effect in 1995 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity for the country. [ 1] Recognising the need for racial harmony, the ...
Heritage Day (Afrikaans: Erfenisdag; Xhosa: Usuku Lwamagugu, Usuku lokugubha amasiko) is a South African public holiday celebrated on 24 September. On this day, South Africans are encouraged to celebrate their culture and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people.
National Women's Day (Zulu: Usuku Lwabesifazane, Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouedag) is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an ...
Festivals in South Africa (13 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Public holidays in South Africa" ... National Women's Day
A reenactment of the 1838 vow in the 1938 film, They Built a Nation The Day of the Vow (Afrikaans: Geloftedag) is a religious public holiday in South Africa.It is an important day for Afrikaners, originating from the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838, before which about 400 Voortrekkers made a promise to God that if he rescued them out of the hands of the approximately 20,000 Zulu ...
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries [ 1] and often referred to as May Day, [ 2][ 3] is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, [ 4][ 5] or the first Monday in May. [ 6][ 7] Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the ...