As South Africans enjoy a day off from work on Tuesday, 24 September to celebrate Heritage Day, there’s bad news for public holidays in 2025. The South African website took a closer look at the dates for public holidays for next year and it shows that working South Africans will not get a day off … Read more
Working South Africans will not get a day off to celebrate National Women’s Day in 2025 because the public holiday falls on a Saturday. The Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) determines that whenever any public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday following it will also be a public holiday. However, for … Read more
Although South Africans will enjoy one fewer public holiday next year, there will be more long weekends in 2025 than in 2024. As reported by The South African website, Mzansi will have 14 public holidays in 2024 – the next of which falls on Tuesday, 24 September when Heritage Day is celebrated. Included in that … Read more
