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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 ...
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 ...
A young Kruger retrieves the body of a fallen commander during the siege of Makapansgat. Kruger Day or Heroes' Day was a official public holiday in South Africa from 1882 to 1899 and again from 1952 to 1994, which celebrated annually on 10 October. The day was named after Paul Kruger, a South African politician who served as president of the ...
International Workers' Day is a public holiday in Ukraine, inherited from the Soviet era. The 1st May as a day of workers' solidarity in Kyiv began as early as 1894. [174] Until 2018, 2 May was also a public holiday (as in the Soviet era), instead in 2017 Western Christianity's Christmas celebrated 25 December became a new Ukrainian public holiday.
Zulu calendar. The Zulu calendar is the traditional lunisolar calendar used by the Zulu people of South Africa. [ 1] Its new year begins at the new moon of uMandulo (September) in the Gregorian calendar . The Zulu calendar is divided into two seasons, the summer iHlobo and Winter ubuSika. [ 2] The lunar seasonal calendar has 13 months [ 3] that ...
There are approximately thirteen nationally recognized public holidays celebrated in the Republic of Zambia, a country in Southern Africa. If a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday will be observed as a holiday. On the Easter weekend, all four days are declared public holidays.
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 ...
Former public holidays in South Africa (3 P) Pages in category "Public holidays in South Africa" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.