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South Africa's "westernised" calendar does not please everyone, the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities heard this week.

"We cannot as Africans live (according to) a Westernised calendar. We must get our own, such as the Chinese, who have their own," a member of the public told a CRL hearing in Bloemfontein.

The meeting was held to hear inputs on the revision of public holidays.

The CRL commission will sit in Bethlehem today.

Representatives of diverse religions and cultural communities attended the workshop at the Bram Fischer building in Bloemfontein.

Delegates said the Christmas and New Year public holidays only benefited Christians, and had been written into law through the Public Holidays Act (Act No. 36 of 1994).

Members of the Basotho, Khoi-Khoi and Khoi-San said they would also like to have national days.

CRL CEO Pheagane Moreroa said the idea was "not to have 365 public holidays", but to protect minority rights.

"We cannot allow that everything becomes a public holiday, because we would never work, but this is about minority rights and their rights must be protected," he said.

"Remember, we are trying to build a nation, we are trying to create social coherence and we are trying to create peace."

Moreroa sought to assure the gathering that CRL was looking for results so the rights of minority religious groups could be recognised.

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Jun 15, 2012

Pointman

Stop this nonsense - there is not such thing as a western calendar. The current calendar started with discoveries in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and was refined in the West. We all contributed to it. Also change the public holidays but do not add more. I don't want to forced to be idle on Eid or Diwali or Shaka day.
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Jun 15, 2012

RobinH

What BS!!! Just do away with ALL religious holidays. We have too many as it is.
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Jun 15, 2012

LBS

Just to put the cat amongst the pigeons ........ :)

How about scrapping ALL public holidays so that the country can become more productive?
Once unemployment is drastically reduced and the country thriving they can be re-introduced.

The present system allows for an extra day to be taken off if a public holiday falls on the week end - such BS

Regular strikes, public holidays maternity/paternity leave and stay away's all contribute to making the population in general pretty lazy and unproductive - don't you think?? ;)

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Jun 15, 2012

maneater

yahh ne i suggest they include G string day and clievage day.
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Jun 15, 2012

wesbuw22

Sexiest she looks more anorexic...bring those holidays up we ned to recognize and celebrate other ppl's holidays...Kwaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Jun 15, 2012

golezwa

its either our calender includes other religeous group's holodays as well as minority group holidays or remove Easter and Christmas from the calendar, if you say you dont wanna idle on Eid day, so you say m
it is good for Muslims to idle on Easter holiday???? let the calendar cater for everyone
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Jun 15, 2012

ngutha

Majority rules, Christians are the majority. No changes needed.
FINISH-EN-KLAAR.

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Jun 15, 2012

WarrenG

Yes but China has had theirs for 1000's of years, keeping records, keeping track... we have bush paintings, that we dunno who painted or when. Quite new though.
We cannot even manage daylight savings time, lets not try a calendar!
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Jun 15, 2012

WarrenG

Oh and China do live to the 'westernised calendar' The whole world does. If Thailand, China, India and heaps of other countries followed their own calendars, the world would not work. So grow up.
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Jun 15, 2012

Tabza325is

@Pointman, ancient calenders were based on the 12 constilation system which ancient priest then were able to abserve, this is why even the chiness calender is also based on the 12 constillation system but they were also other abservable constillations besides the other 12, the Mayan for example abserved 13 constillations. The current western calendar it's the Gregorian Calender and was founded or adopted in 1592 by Pope Gregory XIII, the name of the day were taken from pagan Gods Monday - Moon Day=Moon Goddess, Tuesday - Tiw's Day=God of Battle, Wednesday - Woden's Day =God of Poetry and the Dead, Thursday - Thor's Day =God of Thunder, Friday - Frigg's or Freya's Day =Goddess of Love, Saturday - Saturn's Day =God of Fertility and Agriculture, Sunday - Sun's Day =Sun God and the Months were January - Janus, the God of gates, February = Februa, the day of purification, March - Mars, God of War, April - Apru, Goddess of Love, May - Maia, Goddess of Growth, Juno - Great Goddess of Ancient World, July -Julius Caesar, August - named for Augustus, adopted son of Julius Caesar, September, October, November and December are derived from the Latin words for their old numbers, this is the Gregorian Calender as we know it today.








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