1983
- Honorary citizenship of Rome, February.
- Honorary citizenship of Olympia, Greece, 17 March
- Honorary Doctorate of Laws. City College of New York, 5 June
- City Council of Dublin, Ireland, unveiled sculpture in a city park by Elisabeth Frink dedicated to Nelson Mandela, 26 June
- Award of the order Star of International Friendship in gold by the German Democratic Republic, 18 July
- City Council of Harlow, United Kingdom, renamed one of its major roads in honour of Nelson Mandela, 18 July
- AUEW/TASS, one of United Kingdom's major trade unions, held a special ceremony to rename their executive committee room the 'Nelson Mandela Room', 18 July
- Freedom of London Borough of Greenwich, 20 July
- UNESCO awards its first Simon Bolivar International Prize jointly to Nelson Mandela and King Juan Carlos of Spain at a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Simón Bolívar, 24 July
- City Council of Leeds, United Kingdom, names the Civic Hall 'Nelson Mandela Gardens', 10 December
- Park in Hull, United Kingdom, named 'Mandela Park'
- Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- The Students Unions of Warwick University, Coventry Polytechnic (now Coventry University) and South Bank Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) named rooms in honour of Nelson Mandela
- New York City renamed square in front of South African mission to the United Nations 'Nelson and Winnie Mandela Plaza'
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