Births
- 31 January - Trevor Andrew Manuel, Minister of Finance from 1996, born in Kensington, Cape Town
- 1 September - Jeremy Baskin, trade unionist and labour market analyst, is born
- 2 November - Lucas Seage, artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg
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