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See also: 1961 in South Africa, other events of 1962, 1963 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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
• 13 October - Helen Joseph became the first person to be placed under house arrest under the Sabotage Act

November

• 6 November - United Nations starts sanctions to isolate South 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 Chief Kaiser Matanzima
• 10 December - Martin Luther King and Chief Albert Luthuli launch a Humans Rights Campaign in which they appealed for “Action against Apartheid"

Unknown date

• FIFA suspends South Africa
• A maximum security institution on Robben Island is completed

Births

• 13 June - Mandla Nkosi, artist, is born in Soweto, Johannesburg
• 15 July - Ebrahim Rasool, Premier of the Western Cape, is born in Cape Town
• 29 August - Steve Hofmeyr, singer, songwriter and actor

Deaths

• 6 May - Florence Josephine Zerffi, still life and landscape painter, dies in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, England