src: www.sahistory.org.za
The following lists events that happened during 1992 in South Africa.
Video 1992 in South Africa
Incumbents
- State President: F.W. de Klerk.
- Chief Justice: Michael Corbett.
Maps 1992 in South Africa
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.
- 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 June 17.
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- Unknown date
- Trevor Manuel becomes head of the African National Congress Department of Economic Planning.
src: p.imgci.com
Births
- 17 January - Enrico Adolph, soccer player.
- 29 January - Eben Barnard, rugby player.
- 12 April - Chad le Clos, swimmer.
- 13 August - Jenny-Lyn Anderson, South African-born Australian swimmer.
src: artoffarstar88.files.wordpress.com
Deaths
- 18 October - Abraham Manie Adelstein, South African-born United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician. (b. 1916)
- 25 December - Helen Joseph, activist. (b. 1905)
src: i.ytimg.com
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.
src: s1.dmcdn.net
Sports
Athletics
- 28 March - Abel Mokibe wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:11:07 in Cape Town.
src: p.imgci.com
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
0 Comments