1992 in South Africa

none April 2020 December 2013 1992 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 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_2524000/2524695.stm BBC News 1992: South Africa votes for change 18 March 1992 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.BBC On This Day – 7 September (Accessed on 28 May 2017) 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.http://www.mofa.go.kr/ENG/countries/middleeast/countries/20070824/1_24466.jsp?menu=m_30_50 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 Countries and Regions > Middle East and Africa > List of the Countries Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Koreahttp://zaf.mofa.go.kr/webmodule/common/download.jsp?boardid=15140&tablename=TYPE_ENGLEGATIO&seqno=02cfc9044ffb03e05c07c019&fileseq=012fe9fba029fc3f9d07d029 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 South Korea-South Africa Relations The Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of South Africa 6 April 2015 7 October 2016 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.South African History Online - Top army officers purgedInterview with Major General Chris Thirion on 15 June 2009 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 thumb|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.South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amendedUCW - Electric locomotives http://www.ucw.co.za/pdf/electric_loco.pdf The UCW Partnership 30 September 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012023401/http://www.ucw.co.za/pdf/electric_loco.pdf 12 October 2007 Sports Athletics 28 March – Abel Mokibe wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:11:07 in Cape Town. References 30em 1992 in collapsed South Africa Category:Years in South Africa