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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]
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 ...
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 government chose the date for its significance to both ...
However, the celebrations of the first National Day were delayed until 23 February and that day continues to be celebrated since. [20] Bulgaria: Liberation Day: 3 March: 1878 Ottoman Empire: Treaty of San Stefano which created the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria. [21] Independence Day: 22 September: 1908 [22] Bulgarian Declaration of ...
South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation's ...
Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. [ 1] It commemorates the first post- apartheid elections held on that day in 1994 and the day on which the new constitution was introduced. The elections were the first national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, [ 2] was allowed to vote.
Date. Easter + 1 day, December 26, first Tuesday in November. Family Day is a public holiday in the countries of Angola, Israel, Namibia, South Africa, Uruguay, Vanuatu, and Vietnam; in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan; in the American states of Arizona and Nevada; and as the second ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Christmas lights twinkle, holiday music plays and Johannesburg’s popular Rosebank mall bustles with shoppers. Then the lights The post South Africa marks holidays despite ...