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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Zimbabwe

The list of Zimbabwe bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2010, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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01 Jun 2010 (The Guardian-Harare) Zimbabwe's unity government has declared the afternoon of Wednesday, June 2, 2010, as a one-off public holiday to coincide with that day's friendly pre-World Cup match against Brazil. • 09 Oct 2009 (The Zimbabwe Chronicle-Harare) The Zimbabwe Congress of the Trade Unions (ZCTU) has renewed its call to have June 6, the anniversary of the Kamandama Mine Disaster in Hwange where more than 400 mine workers died in 1972, be declared an official non-working public holiday. • 18 Jul 2009 (Zimbabwe Internet Radio-Harare) Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe, has issued an extraordinary government gazette proclaiming another Unity Day Holiday, in the form of a 3-day, July 24-26, National Peace Days. • 05 Jul 2009 (The Sunday Mail-Harare) The leadership of the Zapu-PF party has called on the Government of Zimbabwe to declare July 1 a new annual public holiday, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, also known as Umdala Wethu and Father Zimbabwe. • 29 Jun 2009 (Zimbabwean Government Gazette-Harare) Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Co-Ministers, Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa, have announced that the list of normal public holidays had been gazetted for 2010. • 18 Apr 2009 (VOA News-Harare) ter years of shunning the April 18, Independence Day, public holiday, Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, and his MDC Party are now saying that the Independence Day is a national event and the property of no single political party. • 24 Dec 2008 (The Herald-Harare) President Mugabe has gazetted the official list of 2009 public holidays in Zimbabwe. • 16 May 2008 (Associated Press) Earlier today, the Zimbabwe electoral commission announced that a run-off election between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held on Friday, June 27, 2008. • 18 Mar 2008 (IOL + AFP) President Mugabe has declared Saturday, March 29, 2008, a public holiday to enable workers to vote in the presidential, parliamentary and local government elections. • 12 Aug 2007 (BusinessWeek) The government has lifted price controls on beer, to ensure that supplies are not disrupted during next week's 2 consecutive public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Zimbabwe public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Weekend Public Holidays:Public holidays that fall on a Sunday are moved to the next Monday. • Many companies close for one to two weeks over the Christmas/New Year period. • National Unity Day is a public holiday gazetted through Statutory Instrument 156 of 1997 to mark the signing of the Unity Accord between the country's two revolutionary parties, Zanu-PF and PF Zapu, on December 22, 1987, in Harare. • Zimbabwe International Codes ZW and ZWE (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .zw (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Zimbabwe information and news: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Zimbabwe maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Zimbabwe), and Wikipedia (includes Zimbabwe commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Zimbabwe, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2010 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Zimbabwe, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Zimbabwe, before planning any trip to Zimbabwe. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.