Deaths
- February – Sgt Benjamin Letlako, a Police Special Branch member is shot dead in Katlehong
- 12 June – David Sibeko, director of Foreign Affairs of the Pan Africanist Congress and representative to the United Nations, is shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
- 30 April – A.A. Pienaar (Andries Albertus Pienaar, pen name Sangiro), born 23 August 1894, died on his farm, Panfontein, near Bloemhof.
- 10 November — Harry Hart (74), South African athlete (b. 1905)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)