If I submitted my tax return in December 2012 when do I get my refund?

Are you due a refund, what was the outcome of your assessment? You would have received an ITA34 from SARS when you submitted your return.

Its my first year of income tax and I have not been working a whole year so I was told I am supposed to get a refund as far as I know. I submitted a ITR12 via eFiling and it was successful and it says I fall in the 2012 financial year.

When you submitted, did you receive an ITA34, look there it will tell you the amount of the refund, if any, and if you were selected for audit.