Day of Reconciliation

Promotes reconciliation and national unity

Historically significant to both Afrikaners (Battle of Blood River) and the ANC (formation of armed wing)

What this holiday commemorates

• 1952 Albert Luthuli elected President-General of the African National Congress at the annual national conference in Queenstown. · South Africa

Related Holidays

New Year's Day

First day of the calendar year

Human Rights Day

Commemorates the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 and the establishment of the SAHRC

Good Friday

Christian commemoration of the crucifixion