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Events from the year1962 in South Africa. This year is notable for its internal and international resistance campaigns against the country'sApartheid legislation.Umkhonto we Sizwe, the militant wing of theAfrican National Congress, made its first sabotage attacks in 1961, andNelson Mandela traveled toEthiopia to rally support for Umkhonto and justify the attacks. Nelson Mandela was sentenced to jail for 5 years upon returning to South Africa for illegally leaving the country.[1] The international sporting community also showed its displeasure with the government's laws. FIFA suspended South Africa in 1962 for fielding an exclusively-whiteSouth African national football team, forcing South African football authorities to add black players to the team.[2] The government, in turn strengthened methods of enforcing Apartheid, and the Robben Island prison was made a political prison in 1962.[3]
