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Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on 25 May 1963. [1] It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent as well as around the world. [ 2 ]
2021 (Tuesday) 2020 ... 2016 (Wednesday) 2015 (Monday) May 25 is the 145th day of the year (146th in ... 1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is ...
The conference was aimed at establishing Africa Day to annually mark the liberation movement concerning the willingness of the African people to free themselves from colonial rule, as well as subsequent attempts to unite Africa, including the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was established on 25 May 1963, and the African Economic ...
Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, DJ Potgieter, Cape Town: NASOU, 1970; Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa, CFJ Muller, 3rd rev., Pretoria Academica, 1981; Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Southern Africa 5th Edition ISBN 0-947008-17-9, 1985; Who did what in South Africa, Mona De Beer, Craighall, South Africa, AD Donker ...
1967 – Having purged a group of rivals, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung delivered the "May 25 teaching", entrenching his son Kim Jong-il as his designated successor. 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have his picture featured on ...
25 May 1963: 21 July 1964 Ethiopia: East Africa: 2: Diallo Telli: 21 July 1964: 15 June 1972 Guinea: West Africa: 3: Nzo Ekangaki: 15 June 1972: 16 June 1974 Cameroon: Central Africa: 4: William Eteki: 16 June 1974: 21 July 1978 Cameroon: Central Africa: 5: Edem Kodjo: 21 July 1978: 12 June 1983 Togo: West Africa: 6: Peter Onu: 12 June 1983: 20 ...
1 January - New Year's Day; 21 February - National Youth Day; 18 April – Independence Day; 18 April – Good Friday; 19 April – Holy Saturday; 20 April - Easter Sunday; 21 April - Easter Monday; 1 May - Labour Day; 25 May - Africa Day; 8 August - Heroes' Day; 12 August - Defence Forces Day; 22 December – National Unity Day; 25 December ...
27 April – Freedom Day; 1 May International Workers' Day; South Africa now enters Level 4 of the national lockdown to ensure the economy can gradually reopen with some easing of other restrictions. [16] 12 June – Femicide is described as a second pandemic as more than 20 women and children are murdered in a matter of weeks. [17] 25 May ...