2012 in South Africa

May 12, 2024

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

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List of years in South Africa

Incumbents edit

Cabinet edit

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

National Assembly edit

Provincial Premiers edit

Events edit

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 edit

July 12 - Someone who was born in Somerest Hospital near Waterfront.

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (December 2013)

Deaths edit

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 edit

This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (March 2014)

See also edit

2012 in South African television

References edit

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

Further reading edit

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.

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