The following lists events that happened during 1992 in South Africa.

Incumbents

* State President: F.W. de Klerk.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994
(Accessed on 14 April 2017) * Chief Justice: Michael Corbett.

Events

;January * 11 – Singer

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is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. ;February * 3 – State President F.W. de Klerk and

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( , ; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa f ...

, the

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the 1994 South African general election, fir ...

leader, are jointly awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the

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headquarters in Paris. * 25 (about) – South Africa and

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sign a diplomatic agreement. * 28 – Ownership of the port town of

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is transferred from South Africa to

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. * 28 – South Africa and Russia establish full diplomatic ties. ;March * 12 – Citrusdal in the

Cape Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (), commonly referred to as the Cape Province () and colloquially as The Cape (), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Co ...

becomes South Africa's first officially recognised non-racial local authority. * 18 –

White South African White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India Company's original colonists, known as Afr ...

s vote in favour of political reforms which will end the

apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...

policy and create a power-sharing multi-racial government. * The Skweyiya Commission finds the African National Congress guilty of having a systematic policy of abuse and violation of human rights in some camps of exile. ;April * 13 –

announces his separation from his wife

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at a press conference in

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. ;June * 4 – The co.za internet domain is created. * 17 – Violence breaks out between the

and the

Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP; ) is a conservative political party in South Africa, which is a part of the current South African Third Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, government of national unity together with the African National Congress (ANC). A ...

Boipatong Boipatong is a township in Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1955 to house black residents who worked in Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging. Boipatong means "the place of hiding" in the Sesotho language. Boipatong's expansion took place ...

, leaving 46 dead. * 21 –

announces that the

will halt negotiations with the government of South Africa following the

Boipatong massacre The Boipatong massacre took place on the night of 17 June 1992 in the township of Boipatong, South Africa. Massacre The attack on township residents was carried out by armed men from the steelworks residence KwaMadala Hostel, which is located ...

of 17 June. ;July * 9 – Chief Julius Matatu, former Transkei minister and prominent traditional leader, is shot dead at his home in Mqanduli, Transkei. ;August * 3–4 – Black South Africans participate in a

general strike A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large coalitions ...

called by the

to protest the lack of progress in negotiations with the government of State President F.W. de Klerk. * 15 –

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plays its first rugby test since the abolishment of

. ;September * 7 – 29 people are killed in the

Bisho massacre The Bisho massacre occurred on 7 September 1992 in Bisho, in the then nominally independent Bantustan, homeland of Ciskei which is now part of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Twenty-eight African National Congress supporters and one soldier w ...

when the Ciskei Defence Force opens fire on about 100,000 protesters in

Bisho Bhisho, formerly Bisho, is the capital of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. The Office of the Premier, Provincial Legislature and many other government departments are headquartered in the town. The town, three kilometres from King Will ...

Ciskei Ciskei ( , meaning ''on this side of Great Kei River, he riverKei''), officially the Republic of Ciskei (), was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, located in the southeast of South Africa. It covered an area of , almost entirely surrounded b ...

. ;November * 28 – The Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the

Pan Africanist Congress The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, often shortened to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), is a South African pan-Africanist national liberation movement that is now a political party. It was founded by an Africanist group, led by Robert So ...

, massacres civilians at the

King William's Town Qonce, formerly King William's Town, is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River (Eastern Cape), Buffalo River. The town is about northwest of the Indian Ocean port of East London, South Africa, ...

Golf Club, killing four people. ;December * 1 – South Korea re-establishes diplomatic relations with South Africa. South Korea first established diplomatic relations with South Africa in 1961, but withdrew its recognition in 1978 in protest of apartheid. * 19 – State President F.W. de Klerk dismisses 23 senior military officers, including 6 generals, on unfounded suspicion of unauthorized activities designed to disrupt negotiations with the

. ;Unknown date *

Trevor Manuel Trevor Andrew Manuel (born 31 January 1956) is a retired South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who served in the cabinet of South Africa between 1994 and 2014. He was the South African Department of Finance, Minister of ...

becomes head of the

Department of Economic Planning.

Births

* 17 January – Enrico Adolph, soccer player * 21 January – Ronwen Williams, football player * 29 January – Eben Barnard, rugby player * 2 February – Nelisa Mchunu, actress * 10 February – Steven Kitshoff, rugby player * 3 March – Gideon Trotter, sprinter * 10 March – Zola Nombona, actress * 23 March – Rynardt van Rensburg, middle-distance runner * 8 April –

James Hilton McManus James Hilton McManus (born 8 April 1992) is a badminton player from South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine pr ...

, badminton player * 12 April – Chad le Clos, swimmer * 22 April – Rolene Strauss, Miss World 2014, model * 2 May – Grace Legote, rhythmic gymnast * 3 May – Daniel Sincuba, cricketer * 9 May – Sho Madjozi, rapper, poet, writer, and actress * 21 June – Taariq Fielies, footballer * 24 June – Dominique Scott-Efurd, long-distance runner * 26 June – Allisen Camille, badminton player * 13 July – Mogau Motlhatswi, actress * 10 August –

Chanel Simmonds Chanel Simmonds (born 10 August 1992) is an inactive tennis player from South Africa. Simmonds won 23 singles titles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Ci ...

, tennis player * 13 August – Jenny-Lyn Anderson, South African-born Australian swimmer * 14 August – Innocent Maela, football player * 20 August – Pieter-Steph du Toit, rugby player, 2019 World Rugby Player of the Year * 22 August – Pallance Dladla, actor * 13 September – Rouge (rapper), rapper * 13 September – Nelisiwe Sibiya, actress * 15 September – Emtee, rapper * 9 October – Bongani Zungu, football player * 26 October – Connie Chen, golfer * 27 November – Kabza De Small, DJ & record producer * 30 November – Ryan de Villiers, actor * 17 December – Lood de Jager, rugby player * 17 December – Quinton de Kock, cricketer

Deaths

* 20 January – Geoffrey Cronjé founder of Apartheid * 27 August – Alina Lekgetha, nurse, chairman of South African Nursing Association and politician. (b. 1918) * 18 October – Abraham Manie Adelstein, South African-born United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician. (b. 1916) * 25 December – Helen Joseph, activist. (b. 1905)

Railways

Locomotives

* 10 September – Spoornet places the first of fifty Class 38-000 dual mode locomotives in service, the first locomotives in South Africa capable of running either on 3 kV DC electricity off the catenary or on diesel fuel alone.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

Sports

Athletics

* 28 March – Abel Mokibe wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:11:07 in

Cape Town Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...

References

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