Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Zimbabwe Announces 2008 Public Holidays

Sources: The Herald and Zimbabwe public holidays. Late last week, the Minister of Home Affairs of Zimbabwe, Cde Kembo Mohadi, announced the list of public holidays in Zimbabwe for next year in terms of the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business Act. The Minister went on to stress that the list did not include any days which the President may declare to be public holidays in terms of section 2 (2) of the above-referenced act.

Analysis: The list does not contain any surprises and, in any event, with an unemployment rate estimated by the European Parliament to be around 80%, the import of public holidays in Zimbabwe is very relative.