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.
National Assembly
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.
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.8 South Africans killed in Afghanistan
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.South African peacekeeper killed, three wounded in Sudan 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.
November 11 – A runaway fire destroys 76 houses in St Francis Bay. Deaths
21 January – Jeffrey Ntuka, South African footballer . (b. 1985) 2 March – Lawrence Anthony, author. (b. 1950) 30 April – Sicelo Shiceka, South African politician (b. 1966) 5 May – Roy Padayachie, Minister of Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa. (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
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