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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Malawi

The list of Malawi bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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15 Oct 2008 (African Press Agency-Lilongwe) Malawi's President, Bingu wa Mutharika, has announced that from this year onward, Malawi's Mothers' Day public holiday would be observed jointly with the UN-designated World Rural Women’s Day, and on the date of the UN day, October 15. • 10 Apr 2008 (The Daily Times-Lilongwe) Malawi's Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, George Chaponda, has announced that Cabinet has approved the Parliamentary resolution of 2006 restoring Kamuzu Day as a public holiday, observed annually on May 14th, in honor of Malawi's first president Hastings Kamuzu Banda. • 07 Jul 2007 (Nyasa Times) President, Bingu wa Mutharika, announced that henceforth Friday afternoons would be public holidays in Malawi for all Muslims. But he did not declare public holidays to celebrate the traditional Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Qurban and the day for the birth of their Prophet Muhammad, as the MAM (Muslim Association of Malawi) had long been asking for. • 28 May 2007 (Reuters South Africa) A one-month national mourning period was declared, following the death of Malawi's first lady, Ethel wa Mutharika, earlier today. • 08 May 2007 (The Daily Times) With 6 days to go before May 14, 2007, the first occurrence of the new annual public holiday in honour of of the country’s first president Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda, the Malawi exceutive has not yet declared it or gazetted it. However, local reports remain optimistic that it will. • 04 Apr 2007 (Nation Online) Although Malawi's newly revived, May 14, public holiday to commemorate the country’s first president the late Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, still has to be approved by cabinet, it is expected to be approved and occur on May 14, 2007, for the first time. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Malawi public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Malawi are regulated by the Employment Act, 1999 (published 19th May, 2000) as amended by thePublic Holidays (Amendment of Schedule) Order 1986 (Government Notice No. 99; Malawi Gazette Supplement, 1986-11-07, N. 35A, p.291). • Other Muslim festivals may be celebrated especially in the Northern Region and along Lake Malawi. • Kamuzu Day used to be an official public holiday and still is celebrated by some. There was an effort in the spring of 2007 to make May 14, once again, a national public holiday. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Reserve Bank of Malawi (Malawi central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Malawi, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Malawi that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Malawi were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Malawi, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Malawi, before planning any trip to Malawi. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.