Deaths
- 24 January – Sgt Makhulu, a policeman is killed in grenade attack on his home in Mamelodi
- March – Moses Mabhida dies of a heart attack following a stroke while in exile in Maputo
- 18 March – Constable Sinki Vuma is shot dead at his home in Mamelodi
- 11 April – Peter Nchabeleng, former president of United Democratic Front, dies while in police custody in Schoonoord, Lebowa
- 6 June David Lukhele, former minister of KaNgwane and his sister-in-law are killed in his home in Mamelodi, while watching television by African National Congress members, Neo Griffith Potsane, Jabu Obed Masina and Frans "Ting Ting" Masango
- 9 October – Lt Victor Raju, a policeman, is killed in a grenade attack on his home in Durban
- 19 October – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique, dies when his Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashes in South Africa
- 31 October – Detective W/O Seleka is killed in grenade attack on home
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)