holidays.countries.zambia

Zambia(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: ObservedHolidayBase, ChristianHolidays, InternationalHolidays, StaticHolidays

Zambia holidays.

While Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are not explicitly listed in The Public Holidays Act, they're included annually via Section 3 (Power to declare additional public holidays).

According to the The Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Act, 2016 (Act No. 2 of 2016): Art. 56. (1) A general election shall be held, every five years after the last general election, on the second Thursday of August. (2) The day on which a general election is held shall be a public holiday.

References

country = 'ZM' class-attribute instance-attribute

observed_label = '%s (observed)' class-attribute instance-attribute

start_year = 1984 class-attribute instance-attribute

ZM(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: Zambia

ZMB(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: Zambia

ZambiaStaticHolidays

Zambia special holidays.

References

name_bridge_public_holiday = 'Bridge Public Holiday' class-attribute instance-attribute

name_inauguration_ceremony = 'Inauguration Ceremony of President-elect and Vice-President-elect' class-attribute instance-attribute

special_public_holidays = {2014: ((NOV, 11, 'State Funeral of Michael Chilufya Sata'), (DEC, 26, name_bridge_public_holiday)), 2015: ((JAN, 2, name_bridge_public_holiday), (JAN, 20, 'Presidential Election')), 2016: ((SEP, 13, name_inauguration_ceremony),), 2018: ((MAR, 9, name_bridge_public_holiday), (JUL, 26, 'Mayoral and Ward By-elections')), 2019: (OCT, 25, name_bridge_public_holiday), 2021: ((JUL, 2, 'Memorial Service for Kenneth Kaunda'), (JUL, 7, 'State Funeral of Kenneth Kaunda'), (AUG, 13, name_bridge_public_holiday), (AUG, 24, name_inauguration_ceremony)), 2022: (MAR, 18, 'State Funeral of Rupiah Banda')} class-attribute instance-attribute