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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 ...
Women marching in Joburg Pride parade in 2006. There have been pride parades in South Africa celebrating LGBT pride since 1990. South African pride parades were historically used for political advocacy protesting against legal discrimination against LGBT people, and for the celebration of equality before the law after the apartheid era.
In the country's 1987 general election, GASA and the gay magazine Exit endorsed the National Party candidate for Hillbrow, Leon de Beer.De Beer was the National Party's first candidate to address gay rights, and advertised for his campaign in Exit. [5]
A person wearing a rainbow hat at Soweto Pride 2023 parade holding up a Megaphone and speaks into it. Soweto Pride is an annual pride parade held in the Soweto historical black township in Johannesburg, South Africa. The inaugural Soweto Pride was held in 2004 [1] and it happens annually, on the last Saturday of September.
Cape Town Pride is an annual gay pride event ending with a pride parade held in Cape Town, South Africa. It usually runs from around the end of February and is a week of festivals, parties and other events. [1] The first South African pride parade was held in Johannesburg on 13 October 1990, the first such event on the African continent. The ...
Also referred to as Bisexual Pride Day, CBD, Bisexual Pride, and Bi Visibility Day. [20] Genderfluid Visibility Week: 17-24 October: 2021: Also referred to as Genderfluid Week, Fluid Week [21] or Genderfluid Awareness Week. [22] Drag Day: 16 July: 2009: A day that aims to celebrate and recognize drag art all around the world. [23]
1 January - New Year's Day; 21 March - Human Rights Day; 29 March – Good Friday; 1 April – Family Day; 27 April – Freedom Day; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 16–17 June – Youth Day; 9 August - National Women's Day; 24 September – Heritage Day; 16 December – Day of Reconciliation; 25 December – Christmas Day; 26 December ...
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