being a member of music group TKzee 3 December – Mark Boucher, cricketer 15 December – Kabelo Mabalane, Kwaito musician, TV personality & Pastor 30 December – Ashley Callie, actress (d. 2008) Deaths 19 March – Stuart Cloete, novelist, essayist and biographer (b. 1897) 26 April – Sid James, South African-born British actor (b. 1913) 16 June – Melville Edelstein, sociologist, killed due to Soweto uprising (b. 1919) 16 June – Hastings Ndlovu, Soweto uprising casualty (b. 1961) 16 June – Hector Pieterson, Soweto uprising casualty (b. 1963) 9 September – Ivan Mitford-Barberton, sculptor, writer and herald (b. 1896) 6 November – Sydney Skaife, entomologist and naturalist (b. 1889) Railways Locomotives Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways: March – The first of one hundred Class 35-400 General Electric type U15C diesel-electric locomotives. September – The first of one hundred Class 35-600 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT18MC diesel-electric locomotives. The first of one hundred Class 6E1, Series 6 electric locomotives. See also 1976 in South African television References South Africa Years in South Africa History of South Africa