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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 ...
The first meeting of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission also took place on 16 December 1995. [31] In an address in 1995, Archbishop Desmond Tutu described the holiday as serving the need of healing the wounds of Apartheid. [32] The holiday is also used to celebrate minority cultural groups in South Africa, such as the San ...
March 22 – Independence Day, Public holidays in Namibia. [8] March 23 – Southern African Liberation Day, Public holidays in Angola. [9] April 19 – King Mswati III′s Birthday, Public holidays in Eswatini. [10] April 27 – Freedom Day (South Africa), Public holidays in South Africa. [11] May 4 – Cassinga Day, Namibia. [8] May 25 ...
South Africa [71] 12 12 South Korea [72] 14 14 Spain [73] 12 13 depending on autonomous community Sri Lanka [74] 25 25 Sweden [75] 12 12 Switzerland [76] 9 15 depending on the canton, including holidays falling on a weekend Taiwan [77] 12 12 Thailand [31] 16 16 Tanzania [78] 16 16 East Timor [79] 18 18 Trinidad and Tobago [31] 18 18 Turkey [31 ...
Pages in category "Public holidays in South Africa" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
See South Africa public holidays for exact dates and names. This page was last edited on 22 July 2024, at 14:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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 464 Voortrekkers made a promise to God that if he rescued them out of the hands of the approximately 16,000 Zulu warriors ...
Public holidays in South Africa; Public holidays in South Sudan; Public holidays in Spain; Public holidays in Sri Lanka; Public holidays in Sudan; Public holidays in Suriname; Public holidays in Sweden; Public holidays in Switzerland; Public holidays in Syria; Public holidays in Taiwan; Public holidays in Tajikistan; Public holidays in Tanzania