I love all the Public Holidays we have in South Africa. I think that SA is a country with one of the highest number of public holidays in the world. Not good for business in a developing country but certainly good for the 'werkers'.
Today is like a Friday for me. I am looking forward to the long weekend. This weekend is Easter. Good Friday is a holiday as well as Easter Monday. There is another 2 long weekends coming up soon. The 27th April (Freedom Day - I think) is a holiday and as it falls on a Sunday the Monday is automatically a holiday. The 1st May (Thrusday) is Workers Day and so the SA goverment has announced that they are making the 2nd May (a Friday) a holiday too. They has been done simply because Good Friday falls on the 21 March which is normally a Public Holiday (cant remember the reason) so because we are 'missing' out on a holiday they have given us a extra day off. So this means that, that week will equal a total of 2 working days. Problem is that most people will then take advantage and take those 2 days off as well. It does not make sense really - they should rather 'give us' the extra day sometime later in the year when there are no holidays.
People overseas in Ireland/UK used to find it really strange when I told them how the South Africans do it with regards to public holidays. In Ireland we would get a Bank Holiday Monday and that was considered a long weekend these were also evenly spread over the year. Bank Holidays are always on a Monday with the exceptions of St Patrick's Day (17 March) and Christmas Day. You would think a Catholic country like RO Ireland would have Good Friday as a holiday too but this is not so.
So I will enjoy my long weekend and all the rest. I look at it as extra quality time with the kids.
Today is like a Friday for me. I am looking forward to the long weekend. This weekend is Easter. Good Friday is a holiday as well as Easter Monday. There is another 2 long weekends coming up soon. The 27th April (Freedom Day - I think) is a holiday and as it falls on a Sunday the Monday is automatically a holiday. The 1st May (Thrusday) is Workers Day and so the SA goverment has announced that they are making the 2nd May (a Friday) a holiday too. They has been done simply because Good Friday falls on the 21 March which is normally a Public Holiday (cant remember the reason) so because we are 'missing' out on a holiday they have given us a extra day off. So this means that, that week will equal a total of 2 working days. Problem is that most people will then take advantage and take those 2 days off as well. It does not make sense really - they should rather 'give us' the extra day sometime later in the year when there are no holidays.
People overseas in Ireland/UK used to find it really strange when I told them how the South Africans do it with regards to public holidays. In Ireland we would get a Bank Holiday Monday and that was considered a long weekend these were also evenly spread over the year. Bank Holidays are always on a Monday with the exceptions of St Patrick's Day (17 March) and Christmas Day. You would think a Catholic country like RO Ireland would have Good Friday as a holiday too but this is not so.
So I will enjoy my long weekend and all the rest. I look at it as extra quality time with the kids.
No comments:
Post a Comment