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🇿🇦 Youth Day in South Africa
Celebration of Cameroon's youth
Date in South Africa
June 16
Instituted1995
A day to honor the role of youth in the country's development.
Commemorates the 1961 unification and honors young people with parades and celebrations
How Youth Day is observed in South Africa
Historical significance
Established in memory of the students who protested against the apartheid regime.
Public life in South Africa
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
Formerly known as
Soweto Day
What this holiday commemorates
- 1913 South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act restricting the purchase or lease of land by Native Africans. · South Africa
- 1913 South African Government passes the Native Land Act, restricting the purchase or lease of land by Native Africans. · South Africa
- 1976 Soweto uprising: South African police shoot protesting Soweto students opposing Afrikaans as an instruction language in Black schools. · South Africa
- 1999 Thabo Mbeki is elected the second President of a democratic South Africa. · South Africa
- 2004 Ahmed Sékou Touré posthumously awarded South Africa's Supreme Companion of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo. · South Africa
In South Africa, around 1995
- 1995 Runaway locomotive kills over 100 miners at Vaal Reefs gold mine, South Africa. · South Africa
- 1995 The day is declared Heritage Day in South Africa, a public holiday to celebrate the cultural diversity of the country. · South Africa
- 1995 Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid mom... · South Africa
- 1995 Heritage Day is declared a public holiday in South Africa to celebrate the country's cultural diversity. · South Africa