{"id":363608,"date":"2020-01-02T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=363608"},"modified":"2020-02-21T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:22:54","slug":"south-africa-to-get-an-extra-public-holiday-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/363608\/south-africa-to-get-an-extra-public-holiday-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa to get an \u2018extra\u2019 public holiday this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will have 13 public holidays in 2020, including an additional day off to celebrate National Women\u2019s Day on 9 August.<\/p>\n<p>Monday (10 August 2020) becomes an additional public holiday in terms of the Public Holidays Act.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans also scored an day off\u00a0 in May last year, to vote in the national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Employees are also likely to take advantage of the long weekends &#8211; with Freedom Day (27 April)\u00a0 and Workers\u2019 Day (1 May) set to fall on a Monday and Friday respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The public holidays for 2020 are as follows according to official government <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/about-sa\/public-holidays#2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proclamation<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 January: New Year\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<li>21 March: Human Rights Day<\/li>\n<li>10 April: Good Friday<\/li>\n<li>13 April: Family Day<\/li>\n<li>27 April: Freedom Day<\/li>\n<li>1 May: Workers&#8217; Day<\/li>\n<li>16 June: Youth Day<\/li>\n<li><strong>9 August: National Women\u2019s Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>10 August: Public holiday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>24 September: Heritage Day<\/li>\n<li>16 December: Day of Reconciliation<\/li>\n<li>25 December: Christmas Day<\/li>\n<li>26 December: Day of Goodwill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dates on which Good Friday and Easter Sunday fall are determined according to the ecclesiastical moon. That varies each year but they fall at some point between late March and late April.<\/p>\n<p>Consecutive public holidays can have a significant impact on working arrangements and shifts, especially in workplaces that run a 24\/7\/365 operation. And while, a &#8216;day off&#8217; can impact economic productivity, it can help stave off fatigue-related issues.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/363416\/south-africas-new-paternity-leave-laws-are-here-this-is-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa\u2019s new paternity leave laws are here \u2013 this is what you need to know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will have 13 public holidays in 2020, including an additional day off to celebrate National Women\u2019s Day on 9 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":226469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-363608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363782,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363608\/revisions\/363782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}