Although South Africans will enjoy one fewer public holiday in 2025, there will be more long weekends next year than in 2024.

(Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer) Kwanzaa is a seven-day holiday celebrated at the end of December every year and dedicated to the celebration of African and African American heritage and culture.

The vast African continent also offers a multitude of social, political and natural environments within which to examine the successes, test the limitations, and fill in the gaps of the implementation ...