2012 in South Africa

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.

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.


 * 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.
 * 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.

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

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)