2012 in South Africa

none August 2022 December 2013 2012 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.First Cabinet of Jacob Zuma Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (South Africa) National Assembly 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.http://www.openforum.net/ OpenForum 2012 | Home 7 May 2012 23 May 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120523173435/http://www.openforum.net/ dead 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.Johannesburg prison van blast in South Africa: Three dead https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20033841 BBC News 10 September 2023 22 October 2012 November 11 – A runaway fire destroys 76 houses in St Francis Bay. Deaths Deaths in 2012 21 January – Jeffrey Ntuka, South African footballer .https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/16665369 Jeffrey Ntuka stabbed to death in South Africa 21 January 2012 21 January 2012 BBC Sport (b. 1985) 2 March – Lawrence Anthony, author. (b. 1950) 30 April – Sicelo Shiceka, South African politician (b. 1966) 5 May – Roy Padayachie,http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/roy-padayachie Roy Padayachie SA History 12 June 2014 Minister of Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa.http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/17127-Padayachie-talking-tough.html Padayachie talking tough « Telecoms « MyBroadband Tech and IT News Mybroadband.co.za 2010-12-07 2012-05-06 (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 References Further reading 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 2012 in collapsed