1962 in South Africa
See also: 1961 in South Africa, other events of 1962, 1963 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
January
- Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa for military training with the Umkhonto we Sizwe
March
- 12 March - Defence Minister J.J. Fouche, outlines South Africa's defence policy to make South Africa self-supporting in military equipment
May
- 6 May - Victorio Carpio (Philippines) and Martinez de Alva (Mexico), both United Nations representatives begin informal talks about South West Africa with Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, the Prime Minister of South Africa, in Pretoria
August
- 5 August - Nelson Mandela is arrested after the CIA tipped off the police
October
- October - Lillian Masediba Ngoyi is banned for 10 years, confining her to Orlando Township in Johannesburg and forbidding her to attend any gatherings
December
- 10 December - Martin Luther King and Chief Albert Luthuli launch a Humans Rights Campaign in which they appealed for “Action against Apartheid"
Unknown date
- United Nations starts sanctions to isolate South Africa politically and economically
- A maximum security institution on Robben Island is completed
Births
- 29 August - Steve Hofmeyr, signer, songwriter and actor
- 13 June - Mandla Nkosi, artist, is born in Soweto, Johannesburg
Deaths
- 6 May - Florence Josephine Zerffi, still life and landscape painter, dies in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, England