South Africans have much to look forward to this year, with 13 public holidays lined up for 2020, including an additional day off to celebrate National Women’s Day on August 9.
In terms of the Public Holidays Act, Monday, 10 August 2020, has become an additional public holiday.
With an extra day off from work lined up, employees can also expect to take advantage of additional long weekends, with Freedom Day (April 27) and Workers’ Day set to fall on a Monday and Friday respectively.
The public holidays for 2020 are as follows according to official government proclamation:
- 1 January: New Year’s Day
- 21 March: Human Rights Day
- 10 April: Good Friday
- 13 April: Family Day
- 27 April: Freedom Day
- 1 May: Workers’ Day
- 16 June: Youth Day
- 9 August: National Women’s Day
- 10 August: Public holiday
- 24 September: Heritage Day
- 16 December: Day of Reconciliation
- 25 December: Christmas Day
- 26 December: Day of Goodwill
While consecutive public holidays can have a significant impact on work schedules, impacting economic productivity, time off work can help fend off fatigue-related issues.
What are your thoughts of an extra public holiday lined up for 2020? Share your thoughts and opinions with us in the comment section below.
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With all the public holidays implemented since 1994, the scraping of Christian Holydays, the implementation of communist holidays, we need to ask if our economy can actually afford such. Ask yourself this “are these extra holidays as much about giving the work force well deserved dayS of rest or about keeping the masses complacent and subservient? This is as much about hampering our economy and driving us into subservience as it is about corruption and strangling our economy even more.