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| 1980 |
| | | Rhodesia becomes independent, taking the name Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe as prime minister | |
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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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| 1983 |
| | | Government imposition of Islamic law (sharia) triggers renewed civil war in Sudan between the Muslim north and Christian south | |
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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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| 1987 |
| | | The film Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, tells the story of Steve Biko, killed in police custody in South Africa | |
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| 1988 |
| | | A cease-fire withdraws Cuban troops from Angola and South African forces from Angola and Namibia | |
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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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