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