1992 in South Africa

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

Incumbents

;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 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.

;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.
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.

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

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)

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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.

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