- 1962 in South Africa
"See also:"
1961 in South Africa ,
other events of 1962,1963 in South Africa and theTimeline of South African history .----
Events
January
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Nelson Mandela leavesSouth Africa for military training with theUmkhonto we Sizwe March
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12 March - Defence MinisterJ.J. Fouche , outlinesSouth Africa 's defence policy to make South Africa self-supporting in military equipmentMay
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6 May -Victorio Carpio (Philippines ) andMartinez de Alva (Mexico ), bothUnited Nations representatives begin informal talks aboutSouth West Africa withHendrik Frensch Verwoerd , thePrime Minister of South Africa , inPretoria August
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5 August -Nelson Mandela is arrested after theCIA tipped off the policeOctober
* October -
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi is banned for 10 years, confining her to Orlando Township inJohannesburg and forbidding her to attend any gatherings
*13 October -Helen Joseph became the first person to be placed under house arrest under the Sabotage ActNovember
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6 November -United Nations starts sanctions to isolateSouth Africa politically and economically under the Resolution 1761.December
* Seven members of POQO, the military wing of the
Pan Africanist Congress , die in a failed attempt to assassinate ChiefKaiser Matanzima
*10 December -Martin Luther King and ChiefAlbert Luthuli launch a Humans Rights Campaign in which they appealed for “Action againstApartheid "Unknown date
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FIFA suspends South Africa
* A maximum security institution onRobben Island is completedBirths
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13 June -Mandla Nkosi , artist, is born inSoweto ,Johannesburg
*15 July -Ebrahim Rasool , Premier of the Western Cape, is born inCape Town
*29 August -Steve Hofmeyr , singer, songwriter and actorDeaths
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6 May -Florence Josephine Zerffi , still life and landscape painter, dies inKilgetty ,Pembrokeshire ,England
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