Articles tagged ‘Family Day’

Public Holidays in South Africa

By Ben | April 18th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Here is the full calendar of South Africa’s annual public holidays. Links will be added as the holidays are reached, and written about on SA Blog!
Note: if a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday also becomes a holiday.

Date
Holiday

1 January
New Year’s Day

21 March
Human Rights Day

March/April (variable)
Good Friday

March/April (variable)
Family Day (Eastern Monday)

27 April
Freedom Day

1 May
Workers’ [...]

 

Family Day

By Ben | April 17th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Happy Family Day!
Happy what - ? Yes, today is another public holiday in South Africa - the tail end of the longest of our famous long weekends.
There’s not much to say about Family Day, except that it exasperates business owners no end, taking, as it does, a pretty arbitrary bite out of our national GDP. [...]