New Year's Day, also simply called New Year or New Year's, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar.

Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December every year.

Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

Family Day is a public holiday in South Africa, after 1995, Easter Monday was renamed Family Day.

Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994

Workers' Day has been celebrated as a national public holiday on 1 May each year since 1995.May Day started to get more attention by African workers in 1928, which saw thousands of workers in a mass march.