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The Christian holidays of Christmas Day and Good Friday remained in secular post-apartheid South Africa's calendar of public holidays. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission), a chapter nine institution established in 2004, held countrywide consultative public hearings in June and July 2012 to ...
Youth Day on 16 June is a public holiday in South Africa and commemorates a protest which resulted in a wave of protests across the country known as the Soweto uprising of 1976. [14] It came in response to multiple issues with the Bantu Education Act and the government edict in 1974 that Afrikaans will be used as medium of instruction for ...
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special ... South Africa [70] 12 12 South Korea [71] 14 14 Spain [72] 12 ...
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 ...
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [ 125]
In several cases, Easter falls onto the latest possible, 17th Sunday of the year. The first time that Easter will fall on April 24 in a leap year will be in 4292 which is also the 115th day of the year. The second latest date for Easter, April 24 or day 114, occurred in 2011. The last time this occurred before was in 1859 and it will not happen ...
June 25 Independence Day From Portugal, 1975 [3] September 7 Victory Day: Lusaka Peace Agreement Day, 1974. [4] September 25 Armed Forces Day: Also Revolution Day, marks the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) launched its first offensive against the Portuguese colonial rulers in 1964. [5] October 4 Day of Peace and Reconciliation
1 Shawwal (subject to moon sighting) Festival of Breaking the Fast. Independence Day. 6 July. Marks Malawi's independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. [6] Mother's Day. 15 October. This holiday is celebrated on World Rural Women's Day.