1992 in South Africa

Incumbents

• State President: F.W. de Klerk.
• Chief Justice: Michael Corbett.

  Events

• 11 - Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

• 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 - 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.

• 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.

• 13 - Nelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a press conference in Johannesburg.

• 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.

• 9 - Chief Julius Matatu, former Transkei minister and prominent traditional leader, is shot dead at his home in Mqanduli, Transkei.

• 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.

• 7 - 29 people are killed in the Bisho massacre when the Ciskei Defence Force opens fire on about 100,000 protesters in Bisho, Ciskei.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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
• 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
• 15 September - Emtee, rapper
• 9 October - Bongani Zungu, football player
• 26 October - Connie Chen, golfer
• 27 November - Kabza De Small, DJ & record producer
• 17 December - Lood de Jager, rugby player
• 17 December - Quinton de Kock, cricketer

  Deaths

• 18 October - Abraham Manie Adelstein, South African-born United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician.
• 25 December - Helen Joseph, activist.

  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.

  Sports

Athletics

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