Deaths
- 13 March – Dullah Omar, a lawyer and politician dies of Hodgkin's Disease
- 9 May – Brenda Fassie, singer, dies after allegedly taking a drug overdose
- 27 May – Nimrod Sejake (83), activist
- 7 September – Beyers Naudé (89), cleric, theologian and activist
- 12 September – Ray Simons (91), a communist and trade unionist
- 12 December – Phaswane Mpe, poet and novelist
- 25 December – Ian Syster (28), long-distance runner
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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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)