1992 in South Africa

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

Incumbents

• State President: F.W. de Klerk. ^[1]
• Chief Justice: Michael Corbett.

Events

January

• 11 – Singer Paul Simon 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, 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 – 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.
• 18 – White South Africans vote in favour of political reforms which will end the apartheid policy and create a power-sharing multi-racial government. ^[2]
• 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.
• 21 – Nelson Mandela announces that the African National Congress will halt negotiations with the government of South Africa following the Boipatong massacre 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 called by the African National Congress to protest the lack of progress in negotiations with the government of State President F.W. de Klerk.
• 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. ^[3]

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

• 1 – South Korea re-establishes diplomatic relations with South Africa. ^[4] South Korea first established diplomatic relations with South Africa in 1961, but withdrew its recognition in 1978 in protest of apartheid. ^{[4] [5]}
• 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 African National Congress. ^{[6] [7]}

Unknown date

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

Births

• 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, 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, 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

Class 38-000

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. ^{[8] [9]}

Sports

Athletics

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

References

1. Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
2. "1992: South Africa votes for change". BBC News. 18 March 1992.
3. BBC On This Day – 7 September (Accessed on 28 May 2017)
4. "Countries and Regions > Middle East and Africa > List of the Countries". Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014.
5. "South Korea-South Africa Relations". The Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of South Africa. 6 April 2015. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
6. South African History Online - Top army officers purged
7. Interview with Major General Chris Thirion on 15 June 2009
8. 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
9. "UCW - Electric locomotives" (PDF). The UCW Partnership. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2010.