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| 1976 |
| | | Hundreds of deaths and casualties result from police firing on a demonstration by schoolchildren in the black township of Soweto | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Steve Biko, founder of Black Consciousness, dies of head wounds received in police custody in Pretoria | |
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| 1983 |
| | | South African novelist J.M. Coetzee publishes The Life and Times of Michael K, and wins the Booker Prize | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Desmond Tutu, rector of an Anglican church in Soweto, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Western nations finally impose sanctions on South Africa in response to apartheid | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Desmond Tutu is the first black African to be archbishop of Cape Town | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Frederik Willem de Klerk, promising reform, wins a whites-only South African presidential election | |
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| 1990 |
| | | South African president F.W. de Klerk announces his radical intention to end apartheid | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Nelson Mandela is given an ecstatic reception on his release after twenty-six years in prison on Robben Island, near Cape Town | |
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| c. 1990 |
| | | Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi transforms Inkatha into a political party, the Inkatha Freedom Party | |
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