1992 in South Africa

Incumbents

• State President: F. W. de Klerk

Events

February

• 3 – President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader, are jointly awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize at the Unesco headquarters in Paris.
• 25 (about) – South Africa and Bulgaria sign a diplomatic agreement.
• 28 – The ownership of the port town of Walvis Bay is transferred from South Africa to Namibia.
• 28 – South Africa and Russia establish full diplomatic ties.

March

• 12 – Citrusdal in the Cape Province becomes South Africa's first officially recognised non-racial local authority.
• 17 – The government holds a referendum about changing the constitution, paving the way to end apartheid.
• 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 – Nelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a press conference in Johannesburg.

June

• 4 – The co.za internet domain is created.
• 17 – Violence breaks out between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Boipatong, leaving 46 dead.

August

• 15 – South Africa plays its first rugby test since the abolishment of apartheid.

September

• 7 – 29 people are killed in the Bisho massacre when the Ciskei Defence Force opens fire on about 100,000 protesters in Bisho, Ciskei. ^[1]

November

• 28 – The Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, massacres civilians at the King William's Town Golf Club, killing four people.

December

• 19 – 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 African National Congress.^[2][3]

Unknown date

• Trevor Manuel becomes head of the African National Congress Department of Economic Planning.

Births

• 17 January – Enrico Adolph, soccer player.
• 29 January – Eben Barnard, rugby player.
• 12 April – Chad le Clos, swimmer.
• 13 August – Jenny-Lyn Anderson, swimmer.

Deaths

• Julayi Hlekiso, chairperson of the Transport and General Workers Union, is shot dead in Transkei.
• 9 July – Chief Julius Matatu, former Transkei minister and prominent traditional leader, is shot dead at his home in Mqanduli, Transkei.
• 18 October – Abraham Manie Adelstein, United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician, dies at the age of 76.
• 25 December – Helen Joseph, activist, dies at the age of 87.

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.^[4][5]

Sports

Athletics

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

References