Get 17 days off with just seven days of leave in 2025
Here's a little hack to get 17 days off in 2025 without using all your leave days…
Planning your year is the best way to ensure you prioritise rest in a fast-paced and busy life.
Luckily for South Africans, there are more than enough public holidays to ensure time off to rest and spend with our families.
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But there is also a hack to help you make the most of those public holidays and turn only a few public holidays into more than two weeks of leave.
From Good Friday, April 18th, South Africans can treat themselves to 17 days of leave if they work well with the already-established leave days.
A recent post on Reddit revealed precisely how to do this:
If you take leave on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 29th, and 30th of April, as well as the 2nd of May in 2025, you will get a whopping 17 days off while using just seven days of leave.
This is due to the numerous public holidays during this time.
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The public holidays include Good Friday on the 18th of April, Family Day on the 21st, Freedom Day on the 27th, which will only be observed on Monday the 28th, and then Worker's Day on the 1st of May.
The total time off will be from Friday the 18th of April to Sunday the 4th of May.
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