2012 in South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 2012 in South Africa.

Incumbents

• President – Jacob Zuma
• Deputy President – Kgalema Motlanthe
• Chief Justice – Mogoeng Mogoeng

Cabinet

The Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive.

Main article: First Cabinet of Jacob Zuma

Main article: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (South Africa)

National Assembly

Main article: 25th South African Parliament

Provincial Premiers

• Eastern Cape Province: Noxolo Kiviet
• Free State Province: Ace Magashule
• Gauteng Province: Nomvula Mokonyane
• KwaZulu-Natal Province: Zweli Mkhize
• Limpopo Province: Cassel Mathale
• Mpumalanga Province: David Mabuza
• North West Province: Thandi Modise
• Northern Cape Province: Hazel Jenkins
• Western Cape Province: Helen Zille

Events

May

• 22-24 – OpenForum conference is held in Cape Town.^[1]

August

• 10 – Marikana miners initiate a Wildcat strike.
• 13 – Striking miners hack to death two security guards and two policemen and remove body parts from the corpses to make muti that would make them "invincible against police bullets".
• 16 – Police open fire on a group of striking Marikana miners, killing 34 and injuring approximately 78.

September

• 18 – Eight South African citizens are killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber blows herself up.^[2]

October

• 1 – The South African Government commissions an inquiry into the shooting at Marikana.
• 18 – A South African Defence Force soldier attached to the African Union/United Nations peacekeeping forces in Sudan is killed and 3 others injured in an ambush in Northern Darfur.^[3]
• 22 – A prison van returning dozens of prisoners to Johannesburg Central prison from court in Randburg is hit by a bomb explosion. At least three are killed, and others wounded; two prisoners escape the van but are re-arrested.^[4]

November

• 11 – A runaway fire destroys 76 houses in St Francis Bay.

Births

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2012

• 21 January – Jeffrey Ntuka, South African footballer .^[5] (b. 1985)
• 2 March – Lawrence Anthony, author. (b. 1950)
• 30 April – Sicelo Shiceka, South African politician (b. 1966)
• 5 May – Roy Padayachie,^[6] Minister of Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa.^[7] (b. 1950)
• 15 May – John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, surveyor (b. 1929)
• 27 August – Dr. Neville Alexander, linguist, academic and anti-apartheid campaigner (b. 1936)
• 21 October – Alfred Kumalo, photographer. (b. 1930)

Railways

See also

• 2012 in South African television

References

1. "OpenForum 2012 | Home". Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
2. 8 South Africans killed in Afghanistan
3. South African peacekeeper killed, three wounded in Sudan
4. "Johannesburg prison van blast in South Africa: Three dead". BBC News. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
5. "Jeffrey Ntuka stabbed to death in South Africa". BBC Sport. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
6. "Roy Padayachie". SA History. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
7. "Padayachie talking tough « Telecoms « MyBroadband Tech and IT News". Mybroadband.co.za. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2012.

Further reading

• Sanusha Naidu (2013). "South Africa". In Andreas Mehler; et al. (eds.). Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2012. Vol. 9. Koninklijke Brill. pp. 507+. ISBN 978-90-04-25600-2.