2012 in South Africa explained

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

Incumbents

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

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

See main article: article and First Cabinet of Jacob Zuma.

See main article: article and Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (South Africa).

See main article: article and 25th South African Parliament.

• • • • • 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

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

Deaths

• 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)

See also

• 2012 in South African television

Further reading

• Book: Andreas Mehler . Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2012 . 2013 . 9 . Koninklijke Brill . 978-90-04-25600-2 . South Africa . Sanusha Naidu . 507+ . https://books.google.com/books?id=Af9AAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA507 . etal.

Notes and References

1. Web site: OpenForum 2012 | Home . 7 May 2012 . 23 May 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120523173435/http://www.openforum.net/ . dead .
2. http://ewn.co.za/2012/09/18/Dept--contacting-families-of-Kabul-victims 8 South Africans killed in Afghanistan
3. http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/10/18/south-african-peacekeeper-killed-three-wounded-in-sudan South African peacekeeper killed, three wounded in Sudan
4. Web site: Johannesburg prison van blast in South Africa: Three dead . BBC News . 10 September 2023 . 22 October 2012.
5. Web site: Jeffrey Ntuka stabbed to death in South Africa. 21 January 2012. 21 January 2012. BBC Sport.
6. Web site: Roy Padayachie . SA History . 12 June 2014.
7. Web site: Padayachie talking tough « Telecoms « MyBroadband Tech and IT News . Mybroadband.co.za . 2010-12-07 . 2012-05-06.