The following lists events that happened during 2006 in South Africa.
Incumbents
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
- May
- June
- 1 – The 16th World Economic Forum on Africa is convened in Cape Town.[2]
- July
- September
- October
- November
Births
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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
Locomotives
Sports
Athletics
See also
References
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Sovereign states | |
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States with limited recognition |
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Somaliland
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Dependencies and other territories |
- Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
- Madeira (Portugal)
- Mayotte / Réunion (France)
- Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)
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