Election Day public holiday missing from South African public holidays

vacanza / holidays

Generate and work with holidays in Python

https://pypi.org/project/holidays

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Closed tweaver10x closed 4 months ago

tweaver10x commented 4 months ago

Yesterday 29 May 2024 was a public holiday in South Africa due to our general elections.

Official Government Website with list of holidays: https://www.gov.za/about-sa/public-holidays

Code to test:

sa_holidays = holidays.ZA(years=[current_year])

for holiday in sa_holidays: print(holiday)

results:

2024-01-01 2024-03-21 2024-03-29 2024-04-01 2024-04-27 2024-05-01 2024-06-16 2024-06-17 2024-08-09 2024-09-24 2024-12-16 2024-12-25 2024-12-26

KJhellico commented 4 months ago

@tweaver10x, which version of Python Holidays do you use? This holiday has been supported since v0.47 (added in #1749).

tweaver10x commented 4 months ago

@KJhellico we are using V0.39. I'll upgrade now, thank you.