5 March Weapons are stolen from the South African Air Force's 10 Air Depot at Voortrekkerhoogte
7 March President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana, declears that the homeland's won't be registering for the April elections. Unrest breaks out and the Bophuthatswana Defence Force is called in
The Transitional Executive Council's law and order subcouncil recommends that Section 29 of the Internal Security Act and Section 206 of the Criminal Procedure Act be repealed immediately
8 March Closing date for submission of South Africa's new flag
The Transitional Executive Council threatens strong action against the Bophuthatswana government
9 March The Nokia 2110 is launched in South Africa at a cost of R4,199
Three people are killed and about 40 injured when police opened fire on demonstrators in Mmabatho, Bophuthatswana
The staff of the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation is fired and the two television stations and three radio stations are closed down
The Inkatha Freedom Party, Freedom Front fail to submit their candidates' lists to the Independent Electoral Commission's offices in Johannesburg by the 4.30pm deadline
The Freedom Front submits its candidates' list but the Inkatha Freedom Party fails to meet the Independent Electoral Commission's new cut-off which means that the Inkatha Freedom Party would no longer be able to contest the April election
12 March Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as Bophuthatswana's new administrator
15 March Nelson Mandela and Professor Itumeleng Mosala (president of the Azanian People's Organisation), address separate rallies in Mmabatho
South Africa's new national flag is unveiled
16 March State President FW de Klerk announces that the government had made a number of contingency plans to prevent the right wing from attempting to take over authority over towns as part of their resistance against the new constitution
The Ciskei's government agrees to pay pension benefits to public servants who threatened "Bophuthatswana-style action" if their demands were not met
18 March Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini suggests that the Zululand region is on the point of a unilateral declaration of independence
21 March The Inkatha Freedom Party rejects an initiative by President De Klerk to bring it into the election and starts planning a campaign of opposition to the Interim Constitution and April's election
Prisoners begin countrywide protest for the right
21 prisoners are killed in a cell fire at the Queenstown Prison
About 2,000 prisoners broke out of their cells and toyi-toyied in the courtyards at Pietermaritzburg Prison
26 March Right-wingers march in Pretoria in a show of strength and the Afrikaner Volkstaat and Conservative Party leader Ferdi Hartzenberg addresses the marchers at Church Square
KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets State President FW de Klerk for talks about contingency planning for strife-torn KwaZulu-Natal
The home of African National Congress regional premier candidate Jacob Zuma is torched by a mob in Nxamalala, near Inkandla, in northern KwaZulu-Natal
27 March Disgruntled nuclear and rocket scientists threaten to expose South Africa's closely guarded secrets about the arms programme unless they are paid R4.5-million in retrenchment benefits
28 March More than 30 people are killed and hundreds injured in battles in the Johannesburg area as tens of thousands of Zulus converged on the city centre to demonstrate their support for King Goodwill Zwelithini
Shell House massacre were security guards at Shell House, the African National Congress HQ in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg, open fire on demonstrators
More than 200 people are arrested in Phuthaditjhaba, QwaQwa after a march by thousands of public servants on the homeland's parliament deteriorated into violence and the South African Defence Force troops are sent in
29 March Mangosuthu Buthelezi states that the Inkatha Freedom Party will fight the African National Congress "to the finish" unless the elections are postponed
The Transitional Executive Council recommends emergency measures in KwaZulu-Natal
April
South Africa establishes a Consulate-General in Mumbai, India
India establishes a High Commission in Pretoria and opens a second Consulate-General in Durban
1 April A state of emergency is declared in KwaZulu-Natal
6 April A joint committee consisting of the Independent Electoral Commission, KwaZulu and the South African Government concludes that elections would be impossible in KwaZulu under present conditions.
14 April International mediation to break the constitutional deadlock between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party fails
Television debate between FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela with no clear winner
Lesotho's Deputy Prime Minister, Selometsi Baholo, is shot dead by dissident soldiers during an apparent kidnapping attempt
15 April Five days of intensive meetings between Mangosuthu Buthelezi, FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela start with the Kenyan roving ambassador Professor Washington Okumu brokering the negotiations
18 April The Star's photographer, Ken Oosterbroek, is among several people killed during a firefight between hostel dwellers and National Peacekeeping Force troops in Tokoza
19 April Inkatha Freedom Party agrees to contest the first nonracial elections, to be held in a week time
24 April Nine people are killed and 92 injured in central Johannesburg when a 90 kg car bomb explodes on the corner of Bree and Von Wielligh Streets outside the African National Congress regional and national headquarters just before 10am
25 April A bomb explodes at a taxi rank near the Randfontein station with no injuries