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Every year, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign either introduces a new theme, or continues an old theme. The theme focuses on one particular area of gender inequality and works to bring attention to these issues and make changes that will have an impact.
National Women's Day, a South African public holiday on 9 August; 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, held between 25 November (International Day against Violence against Women) and 10 December (International Human Rights Day), and known in South Africa as 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children; Women in South ...
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 ...
14 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is re-elected as President of South Africa for a second term. [21] 19 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second term as President of South Africa. [22] 20 June – Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws is suspended after old videos of him making derogatory and inciteful remarks against black people emerge ...
The first South African pride parade was held towards the end of the apartheid era in Johannesburg on 13 October 1990, the first such event on the African continent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 7 ] The first event attended by 800 people was initiated and organised by GLOW, and the crowd was addressed by Nkoli, Donné Rundle, Beverly Ditsie , Edwin Cameron ...
On 9 August 2000, National Women's Day, a monument was unveiled at the Malibongwe Embokodweni, the amphitheatre at Union Buildings in Pretoria to celebrate and commemorate the event of 1956. [2]: 1, 4 It is called the Monument to the Women of South Africa, a project developed by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST).
General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces. [1] [2] This was the 7th general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
In South Africa, the day has been commemorated on 21 March each year as a public holiday called Human Rights Day since 1994, [3] when Nelson Mandela was elected president of a new democratic South Africa. [4] The day is regarded as a day of mourning by some, commemorating the lives of those who died to fight for democracy and equal human rights ...