Event: Heritage Day
Date: Sep 24

Activities: fireworks display, visiting and greeting.The day is one of our newly created public holidays and its significance rests in recognising aspects of South African culture which are both tangible and difficult to pin down: creative expression, our historical inheritance, language, the food we eat as well as the land in which we liveWithin a broader social and political context, the day's events…are a powerful agent for promulgating a South African identity, fostering reconciliation and promoting the notion that variety is a national asset as opposed to igniting conflict .

Event: New Year
Date: January 1st
Activities: Fire Works,loud noises,music. 

New Year in South Africa are worth watching.Cape Town dazzling with more than thousands of fireworks and more all during New Year in South Africa.There rings the church bells at sharp 12 at midnight and here comes the New Year grabbed in all its glory and fame.As the clock ticks 12,people make loud noises,blow car horns,whistles and make loud noises saying "Happy New Year" to one and all. 

Event: National Women's Day
Date: Aug 09
Activities:  This day commemorates 9 August 1956 when women participating in a national march petitioned against pass laws (legislation that required African persons to carry a document on them to ‘prove’ that they were allowed to enter a ‘white area’).