President – Jacob Zuma
Deputy President – Kgalema Motlanthe
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.
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)
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