Deaths
- 18 January – Anton Rupert, 89, billionaire businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wildlife Fund, dies from natural causes.
- 27 February – Tsakani "TK" Mhinga, 27, a Rhythm and blues singer, is found dead in a Bryanston hotel. First reports in the media speculated drug overdose but later reports suggested strangulation.
- 11 October – Butch Kerzner, CEO of Kerzner International and son of Sol Kerzner dies in a helicopter crash near Sosua in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic
- 31 October – Pieter Willem Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa and State President of South Africa, dies in Wilderness
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“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)