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SA government fails to integrate KaNgwane into Swaziland
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and Swaziland with economic sanctions if they continued to harbour African National Congress (ANC) insurgents…
EventPaul Biya becomes president of Cameroon
Ahmadou Ahidjo resigned as president of Cameroon, he was replaced by Paul Biya, the current Prime Minister. Ahidjo handpicked Biya to replace him after he had…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
Beyers Naudé was born into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of Afrikaner nationalism. His father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed…
EventPolitical Activist, Barbara Hogan, is sentenced for High Treason
Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the banned African National…
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
In 1982, the small kingdom of Swaziland was shocked when His Majesty, King Sobhuza II, passed away at the age 83 at the Embo State House. The king died after a…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
Ruth First, journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist Party, was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo,…
EventSADF raid Southern Angola
The South African government has released details of a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Southern Angola. Between two and three hundred South West…
Ernest Dipale dies in detention
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
Three African National Congress members, Telle Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Semano Mosololi, and Marcus Thabo Motaung, were sentenced to death for separate attacks…
EventOne person killed by bomb meant for Chris Hani
An unnamed person was killed in a car bomb explosion at the home of Chris Hani, then Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) commander in Lesotho. Eben Frederick Coetzee, a…
Ingwavuma causes rift between government and homeland
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
The Swaziland government welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claims the territory is historically…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
Stalwart anti-apartheid campaigner of South Africa, Albertina Sisulu, wife of African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu, was placed under a banning…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed the apartheid government's planned…
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
123 White ministers and theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) family issued a statement in which apartheid in church…
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia met the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, in a mobile home that had been set down in the middle of the African bush across South…
EventNew Group Areas Amendment Bill excludes sports
A Group Areas Amendment Bill, introduced on 7 March 1982 and enacted on 21 April, maintained the existing commitment to the principle of separate residential…
EventCapital City of Zimbabwe is renamed
Immediately after obtaining independence from Britain in 1980, Zimbabwe embarked on the process of renaming its cities, towns and streets. This was an attempt…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
Journalist, farm manager, clerk, interpreter and political activist, Henry Selby Msimang, died on 29 March 1982 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. Msimang was a…
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
On 28 March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had developed a 155mm artillery piece that outranged it's counterparts of a similar…
EventThe Conservative Party is formed
The Conservative Party (CP) was founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria, with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brought together, in alliance with Dr…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
On this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, England, was bombed. General Johann Coetzee, former head of the South African security…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
Neil Aggett, former organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, was buried in Johannesburg. It was estimated…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
On 12 February 1982 journalist Thami Mazwai was jailed for two years after refusing to present facts against a former fellow student-leader charged under the…
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
A call for a thirty-minute work stoppage in protest the death of Dr Neil Aggett, who allegedly committed suicide while in police detention, was supported by…
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
Neil Aggett, Transvaal organiser for the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, allegedly commits suicide while in…
EventDr Chris Barnard divorces his second wife
The world known medical practioner, Dr Chris Barnad divorced his second wife Barbara Zoellner whom he had been married for twelve years. He got married to…
EventWinnie is served with Banning Order
Winnie Mandela was banned for another five years and continued to be banished and restricted to the small Orange Free State town of Brandfort.
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
December is known worldwide as AIDS Day due to the epidemic's existence worldwide. Research into AIDS has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of…