Deaths
- Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, legendary golfer, dies
- 8 January – Richard Turner, activist and academic, is shot dead at his Durban home
- 12 January – Monty Naicker, a medical doctor and prominent politician, dies in Durban
- Philemon (Duma) Nokwe, the first African advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and politician, dies
- 4 June – Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer, choir conductor and organist, dies in East London
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)