2006 in South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 2006 in South Africa.

Incumbents[]

Cabinet[]

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

Main article: Second Cabinet of Thabo Mbeki
Main article: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (South Africa)

National Assembly[]

Main article: 24th South African Parliament

Provincial Premiers[]

Events[]

January
  • 10 – Three miners are killed and four others are injured when a magnitude 2.4 earthquake traps twelve miners underground at the TauTona gold mine near Carletonville.
  • 26–28 – A large fire breaks out on the slopes of Table Mountain, taking one life.
February
  • 18–23 – The Koeberg nuclear power station automatically disconnects from the national power grid after when a loose bolt damages a rotor, leaving large parts of the Western Cape without electricity supply. Load shedding in the form of erratic rolling blackouts persist during the week, causing around R500 billion in losses to industry, according to some estimates.
March
  • 1 – Local government elections are held.
  • 5 – Tsotsi wins the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards.
  • 8 – David Goldblatt is awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.
  • 13 – The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) starts a week-long national strike over the restructuring of Transnet.
  • 14 – Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, addresses parliament in Cape Town urging African leaders to improve conditions in Africa.
  • 14–15 – Members of the South African Students' Congress (Sasco) and African National Congress Youth League stage violent protests at the North-West University's Mafikeng campus over the exclusion of some students because of unpaid fees.
  • 23 – Eight miners are trapped underground when a fire breaks out at the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein.
  • 23–24 – About 150,000 security guards go on a two-day nationwide strike, but continues into April and May.
  • 25 – R69,000,000 (US$11.39m) is stolen in a cash heist from a South African Airways aircraft at Johannesburg International Airport.
  • 27 – 5,000 Telkom workers stage a protest march against Telkoms's profit-sharing scheme in Pretoria.
  • 30 – Six South Africans die when the al-Dana, a motorised dhow, sinks off Manama, Bahrain.
April
  • 3 – Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws, two Boeremag treason trial accused, escape from the Pretoria High Court.
  • 3 – The Alexandros T, a Greek bulk carrier, sinks about 300 nautical miles (560 km) east of Port Elizabeth.
  • 6 – A giant rotor to replace the damaged rotor at Koeberg nuclear power station arrives in Cape Town on board the South African Navy's replenishment ship SAS Drakensberg (A301).
  • 24 – The first of four South African Air Force Super Lynx 300 helicopters flies at AgustaWestland's Yeovil factory in England.
May
June
  • 1 – The 16th World Economic Forum on Africa is convened in Cape Town.[2]
July
  • 16 – The first South African Air Force twin-seat SAAB JAS 39D Gripen arrives in South Africa.
September
October
  • 7 – The Marriage Alliance protests in Pretoria against same-sex marriage.
  • 12 – Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer, is questioned by the New Delhi police in Mumbai, India in connection with his alleged role in a 2000 cricket match-fixing scandal.
  • 16 – South Africa is selected for the first time as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2007–2008 period.
November

Births[]

22 September - Lihle Mabutho 5 October- Divan De Lang

Deaths[]

  • 18 January – Anton Rupert, billionaire businessman and philanthropist. (b. 1916)
  • 27 February – Tsakani Mhinga, singer and songwriter. (b. 1978)
  • 31 October – P.W. Botha, former Prime Minister and State President. (b. 1916)

Railways[]

Class 39-000

Locomotives[]

  • April – Transwerk completes the rebuilding of the first of five Class 39-000 Electro-Motive Diesel type GT26CU-3 locomotives for Spoornet from a Class 34-600 locomotive.[3][4][5]

Sports[]

Athletics[]

  • 12 February – George Mofokeng wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:15:06 in Port Elizabeth.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1994-2017 (Accessed on 5 June 2017)
  2. ^ "Is Africa open for business?". 1 June 2006. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  3. ^ Middleton, John N. (2002). Railways of Southern Africa Locomotive Guide - 2002 (as amended by Combined Amendment List 4, January 2009) (2nd, Dec 2002 ed.). Herts, England: Beyer-Garratt Publications.
  4. ^ Information supplied by staff at Transnet Rail Engineering, Bloemfontein and Koedoespoort
  5. ^ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
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