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Founders Day (South Africa)

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The holiday was established on 6 April 1952 during the Van Riebeeck Festival in honour of the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in South Africa.
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was founded. From 1980, the day became known as Founders Day (Stigtingsdag).
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Founders Day continues to be celebrated in the Afrikaner enclave
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Table Bay
Afrikaans
public holiday
Union of South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Jan van Riebeeck
Table Bay
Cape Town
first universal franchise election in 1994
Orania
"On this day in history: Jan van Riebeeck arrived in Table Bay"
"Kulturele Vakansiedae in Orania"
the original
Categories
Former public holidays in South Africa
Afrikaner culture in South Africa

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