1984 in South Africa - Deaths

Deaths

  • 30 January – Patrick McCall, member of the Stander gang, is killed by police in a raid on the gang's hide-out in Houghton, Johannesburg
  • 18 May – Peter Becker, writer, ethnologist and advertising executive, dies after being hit by a car near Florence, Arizona
  • 28 June – Jeannette Schoon, and her 6-year daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, Angola
  • Bernard Gcwensa, artist, dies of tuberculosis at the Hiabisa mission station near St Lucia

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