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Bank and Public Holidays for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for the first 3 months of 2013, 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.

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11 Mar 2012 (The Herald-Harare) The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on the government of Zimbabwe to declare March 8 an annual non-working public holiday in Zimbabwe to commemorate International Women's Day. • 20 Dec 2011 (The Herald-Harare) Zimbabwe's Secretary for Media, Information and Publicity, George Charamba, has announced that the Cabinet of Zimbabwe had decided to declare Tuesday, December 27, 2011, as an additional one-off non-working public holiday throughout Zimbabwe. • 30 Aug 2011 (The Herald-Harare) Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Co-Ministers, Kembo Mohadi and Theresa Makoni, have announced that the Government of Zimbabwe had officially gazetted the list of 2012 non-working public holidays. • 06 Jul 2011 (Newsday-Harare) Zimbabwe's Home Affairs co-minister, Kembo Mohadi, has said that he would "consider the application" when he does receive an application to have July 1 declared a national public holiday in honour of the late nationalist and former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo. • 08 Mar 2011 (Newsday-Harare) Zimbabwe's Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe, has urged the government of Zimbabwe to declare International Women’s Day as an annual public holiday on March 8. • 01 Oct 2010 (The Herald-Harare) Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Co-Minister, Kembo Mohadi, has announced that the Government of Zimbabwe had officially gazetted the list of 2011 non-working public holidays. • 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. • 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).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Zimbabwe, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Zimbabwe, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Zimbabwe. 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 2013 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 worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.