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The following lists events that happened during1982 in South Africa.

• State President:Marais Viljoen.^[1]
• Prime Minister:P.W. Botha.
• Chief Justice:Frans Lourens Herman Rumpff thenPieter Jacobus Rabie.

January

• 7 – A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board inSoweto.
• 8 –Umkhonto we Sizweguerrillas attackKoebergnuclear power plant inCape Town.
• 11 – The United Nations Special Committee againstApartheid launches the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa.

February

• 15 – Four COSAS-Members are bombed by the Security Branch under orders of Brigadier Schoon at a mine dump outside Kagiso. Three die and one is injured.
• 18 – TheSouth African Navy frigateSAS President Kruger sinks with the loss of 16 lives after colliding withSAS Tafelberg.
• 24 –Andries Treurnicht and another 22National Party MPs vote for no confidence in Prime MinisterP.W. Botha.
• South Africa andSwaziland sign a non-aggression pact.

March

• 6 –F.W. de Klerk replacesAndries Treurnicht as leader of theNational Party in theTransvaal.
• 9-14 – TheSouth African Defence Force'sOperation Super takes place.
• 14 – A bomb explodes at theAfrican National Congress headquarters in London.
• 20 – A bomb explodes at the Langa Commissioners Court.

April

• 30 – Prime MinisterP.W. Botha andPresident of ZambiaKenneth Kaunda meet on theBotswana border to discuss the political situation inSouth West Africa and South Africa.

May

• 12 – A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto for the second time.
• 21 – A bomb explodes at the offices of the Department of Coloured Affairs inPinetown nearDurban.
• 28 – A fuel depot and power transformer inHectorspruit is damaged by a limpet mine.

June

• 3 – A bomb damages the railway near Dube in Soweto.
• 4 – One person is killed when a bomb explodes in a lift at the offices of the Presidents Council inCape Town.^[2][3]
• 28 – The railway depot atVryheid is damaged in an explosion.
• 28 – In Scheepersnek, two bombs cause extensive damage to the railway depot, pump station, stores and vehicles.^[4][5]
• 28 – TheDurban-Witwatersrand oil pipeline is damaged by a bomb.

July

• InPort Elizabeth the police station commander's office and New Law Courts are damaged in an attack.

August

• 28 – TheUmvoti Mounted Rifles base in Red Hill,Durban is attacked.

September

• 24 –Umkhonto we Sizwe places explosives on a railway bridge nearUpington that fails to detonate.
• Two insurgents are killed by police inBoksburg.

October

• 26 – Three bombs explode at theDrakensberg Administration offices inPietermaritzburg.^[6]
• A special branch policeman and an insurgent are killed in a skirmish inKwaZulu-Natal.

November

• 8 – A bomb causes severe damage at theMobil fuel storage depot inMkuze.^[7]
• 20-21 – Umkhonto we Sizwe usesRPG-7s to attack a rural police station and temporarySouth African Army garrison atTonga.^[8]

December

• 10 – TheSouth African Defence Force stages a pre-dawn raid on houses inhabited byAfrican National Congress inMaseru, Lesotho.^[9]
• 16 – TheUnited Freedom Front bombs offices ofSouth African Airways in Elmont, NY andIBM in Harrison, NY.^[10][11]
• 18-19 – Four explosions cause massive damage at theKoebergnuclear power station just north ofCape Town.
• 31 – A bomb damages theJohannesburg Magistrates court 200m fromJohn Vorster Square.
• One person is killed and 70 injured in a bomb blast at the Southern Free State Administration Board inBloemfontein.

Unknown date

• Bulelani Ngcuka is jailed for three years for refusing to give evidence in the political trial of Patrick Maqubele and others.

• South Africa adopts a brighter version of the1928 flag.

• 2 January –Ricky Januarie, rugby player.
• 8 March –Brett Evans, football player.
• 17 March –Steven Pienaar, football player.
• 18 March –Sisanda Henna, producer, director, and actor.
• 24 March –Fourie du Preez, rugby player.
• 2 May –Johan Botha (cricketer), cricketer.
• 18 May –Katlego Mashego, football player.
• 11 June –Chere Burger, dressage rider.
• 9 June –Reneilwe Letsholonyane, football player.
• 25 July –Monde Zondeki, cricketer
• 27 August –Khuli Chana,Motswako rapper.
• 6 October –Gio Aplon, rugby player.
• 19 October –Louis Oosthuizen, golfer.
• 21 October –Thapelo Mokoena, actor.
• 16 November
  • Anke Pietrangeli, singer.
  • Jannie du Plessis, rugby player.
• 9 December –Lee-Ann Liebenberg, model. She is notable as 2005FHM-South Africa's Sexiest Woman In the World.
• 22 December –Teko Modise, football player.

• 5 February –Neil Aggett, trade unionist and activist. (b. 1953)^[9]
• 29 March –H. Selby Msimang, journalist and activist. (b. 1886)
• 16 July –Charles Robberts Swart, last Governor-General and first State President. (b. 1894)
• 17 August –Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist and scholar. (b. 1925)
• 20 August –Walter Battiss, artist. (b. 1906)

Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on theSouth African Railways:

• The first of fifty-fiveClass 6E1, Series 10 electric locomotives.^[12]
• Twenty-five 25 kV ACClass 7E2, Series 1 electric locomotives.^[12][13]
• The first of sixClass 9E, Series 2 General Electric Company 50 kV AC electric locomotives on the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line.^[12][14]

• 16 October – Gabashane Rakabaele wins his third national title in the men's marathon inDurban.

• 23 January – TheSouth African Grand Prix takes place atKyalami.

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