Easter Celebrations in South Africa

South Africa celebrates Easter along with its various Easter traditions, like Easter eggs, bunnies and prayers in churches. In South Africa, the festival falls during the school holidays. Not just kids but

adults too enjoy a public holiday of two days for the occasion.

Easter in South Africa

Just like Christmas, people of South Africa celebrate Easter too with great enthusiasm. They give more importance to this festival, which celebrates the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ. Importance is given due to the fact that Lord sacrificed his life for the love of his people and their good. This signifies the love of the savior.

Churches here organize prayer services for the entire week. Easter Sunday though, has a day long church service. There are breaks in between the church service. In these breaks, people enjoy special meals.

There is huge excitement among the people for the festival. They participate in various traditions and also attend the prayer services and the processions held during the Holy Week. Families go out for fun activities and get-togethers.

Easter traditions in South Africa

In South Africa, there may not be a commercialized celebration. Other nations like Australia, Norway organize special traditional fairs and activities like grand Easter Egg hunting fair, and decorating the eggs for the occasion, but South Africa follows these traditions in a more subtle manner. Some of the traditions for Easter, followed by the South Africans are:

Decorating Easter Eggs

Easter parades

Grand Easter feasts with traditional recipes

Easter traditional meal

Every country specializes in some delicacy, which is also the traditional food of that country . When it comes to Easter, this country too is not left behind in producing excellent recipes for the occasion. South African special recipes for Easter include:

Hot Cross Buns
Pickled Fish
Marshmallow Eggs
Creamed corns
Pineapple casserole
Green bean dish
Mashed Potatoes

Events

South Africa may not have too many events lined up for the occasion of Easter, but it certainly has something for you to enjoy during the festival. Some of the special events :

Face Painting Competition

Plant and Paint your Easter Pot event

Easter Egg Hunt

These events take place at Garden World in South Africa. You can be a part of these entertaining events, which makes its celebrations a success.

Latest Updated on 29/12/2010