Percy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player 16 March – Brian Baloyi, soccer player 27 March – George Koumantarakis, football player 29 March – Basetsana Kumalo, first runner-up in Miss World 1994, businesswoman, tv personality 13 April – K. Sello Duiker, novelist (d. 2005) 21 April – Tony Kgoroge, actor 21 April – Mandla Mandela, chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and the grandson of Nelson Mandela 26 April – Louise Barnes, actress 11 June – Ricardo Loubscher, rugby player 22 June – Alfred Phiri, soccer player 26 June – Cyril Nzama, soccer player 29 June – Judith Sephuma, singer 30 June – Hezekiél Sepeng, middle-distance athlete 11 July – Michelle Claire Edwards, badminton player 17 July – Linda Sibiya, radio, television personality and motivational speaker 26 September – Ninja (Die Antwoord), recording artist, rapper, record producer and actor 27 October – Thabo Mooki, soccer player 8 November – Penny Heyns, breast-stroke swimmer 17 December – Charl Langeveldt, cricketer Deaths 1 February – Abram Onkgopotse Tiro, militant student leader. (b. 1947) 2 February – Thomas Sturgess, an Indian cricketer, dies in Cape Town (b. 1898) 22 March – Peter Revson, American race car driver, died in pre-race crash at the South African Grand Prix in Midrand. (b. 1939) 3 April – Ossie Newton-Thompson, cricketer and politician. (b. 1920) 20 May – Leontine Sagan, director and actress. (b. 1889) 28 May – Matthew Frew, Air Vice Marshal of the South African Air Force, died in Pretoria. (b. 1895) Railways Locomotives Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways: The first of one hundred , Series 5 electric locomotives. November – The first of 150 Class 35-200 General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) type GT18MC diesel-electric locomotives. December – The first of 100 Class 34-600 GM-EMD type GT26MC diesel-electric locomotives. ISCOR places the first of forty-four Class 34-500 General Electric type U26C diesel-electric locomotives in service on the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line. Sports 6 May – The British and Irish Lions begin a controversial twenty-two match rugby union tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. References South Africa Years in South Africa History of South Africa