Deaths
- Queen Nolitha of Ixhiba, the 4th wife of Xolilizwe Mzikayise Sigcawu dies
- 8 January – Jacob Molokwane, an activist, is shot dead in his car in Francistown, Botswana
- 17 January – Percy Qoboza, journalist, author and critic of the apartheid government, dies on his 50th birthday after a short illness
- 29 January – Linda Brakvis, a United Democratic Front member, is found stabbed 3 days after her release from detention
- 29 March – Dulcie September, is assassinated in Paris
- 12 April – Alan Paton dies in his home near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)