Women'S Day 2025 South Africa Date. Calendar for the whole year, calendar for any month, lunar calendar, printable calendar. Observed on august 9th in south africa annually, national women’s day is a holiday that commemorates the national march of over fifty thousand women on this day in 1956 to.

We also pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the union buildings on 9 august 1956 in protest against the extension of pass laws to women. South africans will lose out on one public holiday in 2025 because national women’s day falls on a saturday, which means that it will not be observed.