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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 ...
South Africa accepted the convention on 10 July 1997. There are twelve World Heritage Sites in South Africa. The first three sites in South Africa were added to the list in 1999 while the most recent ones, the Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites and the Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa, were added in 2024.
Saint Stephen's Day or Second Day of Christmas (26 December) – Holiday observed in many European countries. Boxing Day (26 December or 27 December) – Holiday observed in many Commonwealth countries on the first non-Sunday after Christmas. New Year's Eve (31 December) – Night before New Year's Day.
10 July – 2022 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election. 31 July – 2022 Senegalese parliamentary election. 9 August – 2022 Kenyan general election. 24 August – 2022 Angolan general election. 25 September – 2022 São Toméan legislative election. 7 October – 2022 Lesotho general election.
Public Holiday 21 February National Youth Day: Easter Sunday-2d Good Friday: Easter Sunday-1d Holy Saturday: Easter Sunday: Easter Sunday: Easter Sunday +1d Easter Monday: 18 April Independence Day: 1 May Labour Day: 25 May Africa Day: Second Monday in August Heroes' Day: Tuesday after Second Monday of August Defence Forces Day: 22 December ...
South Africa is divided into nine provinces. [1] On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, known as Bantustans, were reintegrated into the country, and the four provinces were increased to nine. The borders of Natal and the Orange Free State were retained, while the Cape Province and Transvaal were divided into ...
South Africa’s Christmas 2022 is a start/stop affair, with the country’s nationwide power cuts hitting just about every aspect of the holiday.
An Act to amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Juneteenth National Independence Day as a legal public holiday. Enacted by: the 117th United States Congress: Effective: June 17, 2021: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 117–17 (text) Statutes at Large: 135 Stat. 287: Codification; Titles amended