2012 in South Africa

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

Incumbents

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

Events

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.

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.

November

• 11 – A runaway fire destroys 76 houses in St Francis Bay.

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2012

• 2 March – Lawrence Anthony, author. (b. 1950)
• 15 May – John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, surveyor (b. 1929)
• 27 August – Dr. Neville Alexander (75), linguist, academic and anti-apartheid campaigner
• 21 October – Alfred Kumalo, photographer. (b. 1930)

Further reading

• 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. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)