OPINIONISTA: Public holidays: Enough already, South Africa

When tradition and customs for the sake of it start to become a cross too heavy to carry, we owe it to ourselves to assess their suitability in the modern day. Many business owners will attest to the savage impact these holidays have had – an already impotent economy kicked right in the bollocks by the arch-nemesis of the business owner: the public holiday.

Mid-week holidays are the Devil’s work! Public holidays must either be taken on a Monday or Friday, as it is in the UK, to avoid serial extended leave-taking. Given most people do not actually bother attending a church on Good Friday, and Family Day can be embraced by all, let’s scrap Good Friday as a holiday and add an extra day’s annual leave for religious purposes for anyone who needs to take a day off to celebrate. They can still attend church and the rest of us heathens can keep the course.

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