1992 in South Africa explained

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. 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

• 17 January  - Enrico Adolph, soccer player
• 21 January  - Ronwen Williams, football player
• 29 January  - Eben Barnard, rugby player
• 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
• 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
• 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.^{[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.

Notes and References

1. http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_pres1/ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994
2. News: 1992: South Africa votes for change . BBC News . 18 March 1992.
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/7/newsid_2502000/2502607.stm BBC On This Day – 7 September
4. Web site: Countries and Regions > Middle East and Africa > List of the Countries. https://web.archive.org/web/20141117164322/http://www.mofa.go.kr/ENG/countries/middleeast/countries/20070824/1_24466.jsp?menu=m_30_50. dead. 2014-11-17. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea.
5. Web site: South Korea-South Africa Relations. https://web.archive.org/web/20141117164322/http://zaf.mofa.go.kr/webmodule/common/download.jsp?boardid=15140&tablename=TYPE_ENGLEGATIO&seqno=02cfc9044ffb03e05c07c019&fileseq=012fe9fba029fc3f9d07d029. dead. 17 November 2014. The Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of South Africa. 6 April 2015. 7 October 2016.
6. http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/top-army-officers-purged South African History Online - Top army officers purged
7. http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/52/325/34-145-7-31-AL3283_A2.2.2.1.pdf 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. Web site: UCW - Electric locomotives. The UCW Partnership. 30 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012023401/http://www.ucw.co.za/pdf/electric_loco.pdf . 12 October 2007.