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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 ...
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 ...
Player of the series. Mitchell Marsh (Aus) The Australia men's cricket team toured South Africa in August and September 2023 to play five One Day Internationals (ODI) and three Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) matches. [1] [2] The ODI matches formed part of both teams' preparations for the 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup (which Australia won). [3]
The 2023 South African National Shutdown was a protest held by the political party Economic Freedom Fighters on 20 March 2023, the day before Human Rights Day. [8] [4] [9] [10] [11] The EFF called for the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa and an end to load-shedding. [3] [5] The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, warned businesses ...
20 March – South Africa prepares for a "nationwide shutdown" as the military is deployed ahead of protests by the Economic Freedom Fighters. [8] 2 June – In February 2023, South Africa experienced a cholera outbreak that grew from 2 initial cases to 99 confirmed cases in Tshwane over the following months. Jubilee Hospital reported 17 deaths.
The 2023 BRICS summit was the fifteenth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. [ 2 ][ 3 ] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa also invited the leaders of 67 countries to the summit.
June 2023 events in Africa (4 C, 8 P) July 2023 events in Africa (3 C, 8 P) August 2023 events in Africa (4 C, 9 P) September 2023 events in Africa (7 C, 13 P) October 2023 events in Africa (5 C, 6 P) November 2023 events in Africa (4 C, 8 P) December 2023 events in Africa (4 C, 11 P)
2024 →. Miss South Africa 2023 was the 65th edition of the Miss South Africa pageant, held on Sunday, 13 August 2023 at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria. Ndavi Nokeri of Limpopo crowned Natasha Joubert of Gauteng as her successor at the end of the event. Joubert had previously represented South Africa at Miss Universe 2020 so her first runner-up ...