If Contralesa has its way, South Africa will have another public holiday added to the 12 on the calendar. It would be Ancestors’ Day on 8 May, dedicated to ‘reflection, prayer and appeasement of our ancestors’.
With just two weeks to go until Ancestors’ Day, which was launched on May 2021, Contralesa Secretary-General Zolani Mkiva argued that the day was a foundation they were laying to change systems and.
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