2012 in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during 2012 in South Africa.
Incumbents
[edit]The Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive.
- 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
[edit]- May
- 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
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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
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "OpenForum 2012 | Home". 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.
