2012 in South Africa
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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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- November
- 11 – A runaway fire destroys 76 houses in St Francis Bay.
Deaths
- 2 March – Lawrence Anthony, author. (b. 1950)
- 27 August – Dr. Neville Alexander (75), acclaimed linguist, academic and anti-apartheid struggle veteran, dies following a battle with cancer.
- 21 October – Alfred Kumalo, photographer. (b. 1930)
References
Further reading
- Sanusha Naidu (2013). "South Africa". In Andreas Mehler et al. Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2012 9. Koninklijke Brill. pp. 507+. ISBN 978-90-04-25600-2.
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