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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 ...
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. ...
National Women's Day (Zulu: Usuku Lwabesifazane, Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouedag) is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an ...
Politically, South Africa has held municipal elections in 2016. The political party with the majority in most municipalities in 2016 South Africa is the African National Congress , however, the Democratic Alliance managed to gain the key metros of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.
2016 events in South Africa by month (7 C) This page was last edited on 29 January 2025, at 04:24 (UTC). Text is available under the ... 2016 in Africa by month.