Committee. Bulelani Ngcuka is detained by police for eight months. A Security Police counter-insurgency unit is started by Dirk Coetzee, Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner with 16 police officers at Vlakplaas. Births 13 January – Ayanda Borotho, actress 22 January – Khabonina Qubeka, actress, TV presenter, dancer, choreographer, fitness & wellness coach 1 February – Graeme Smith, cricketer 3 February – Jo-Ann Strauss, 2001 Miss South Africa 10 February – Maggie Benedict, actress 11 February – Alexander Peternell, equestrian rider 15 February – Lee-Anne Pace, golfer 20 February – Akona Ndungane, rugby player 20 February – Odwa Ndungane, rugby player 24 February – Jean De Villiers, Springboks captain 26 February – Bridget Masinga, 3rd in the 2002 Miss South Africa pageant, actress, television and radio personality 3 March – Julius Malema, Member of Parliament and the founder & leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters 16 April – Nasief Morris, football player 16 April – Gareth Echardt, figure skater 4 May – Jacques Rudolph, cricketer 11 May – Terry Pheto, actress 21 May – Jacques le Roux, tenor singer 26 May – Zakes Bantwini, musician, recording artist and record producer. 29 May – Iain Evans, field hockey player 10 June – Albie Morkel, cricketer 12 June – Gurthrö Steenkamp, rugby player 19 June – Quintin Geldenhuys, South African-born Italian rugby player 19 June – Dorian James, badminton player 22 June – Linda Mkhize, rapper and producer (d. 2018) 6 July – Jenna Challenor, long-distance runner 30 July – Juan Smith, rugby player 4 September – Lesley Manyathela, football player (d. 2003) 8 September – Ashwin Willemse, rugby player & tv rugby analyst 29 September – Siyabonga Sangweni, football player 19 October – Lucas Thwala, football player 18 December- Bernard de Jager, South African Pen and Ink Artist 22 December – Tumi Morake, comedienne, actress & TV personality 26 December – Shu-Aib Walters, football player Deaths 19 November – Griffiths Mxenge, activist. (b. 1935) Railways Locomotives 5 February – Rebuilding of the Class 26 4-8-4 steam locomotive, popularly known as the Red Devil, is completed at the Salt River Works in Cape Town. Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways: May – One hundred Class 37-000 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT26M2C diesel-electric locomotives. The first of eighty-five Class 6E1, Series 9 electric locomotives. Sports Athletics 17 October – Mark Plaatjes wins his first national title