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

## Incumbents

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

### Cabinet

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

Main article: First Cabinet of Jacob Zuma

Main article: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (South Africa)

### National Assembly

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Main article: 25th South African Parliament

### Provincial Premiers

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* 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

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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

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## Deaths

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Main article: Deaths in 2012

* 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

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* 2012 in South African television

## References

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1. ^ "OpenForum 2012 | Home". Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
2. ^ 8 South Africans killed in Afghanistan
3. ^ South African peacekeeper killed, three wounded in Sudan
4. ^ "Johannesburg prison van blast in South Africa: Three dead". BBC News. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
5. ^ "Jeffrey Ntuka stabbed to death in South Africa". BBC Sport. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
6. ^ "Roy Padayachie". SA History. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
7. ^ "Padayachie talking tough « Telecoms « MyBroadband Tech and IT News". Mybroadband.co.za. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2012.

## Further reading

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* 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.

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