– Umkhonto we Sizwe places explosives on a railway bridge near Upington that fails to detonate. Two insurgents are killed by police in Boksburg. October 26 – Three bombs explode at the Drakensberg Administration offices in Pietermaritzburg. A special branch policeman and an insurgent are killed in a skirmish in KwaZulu-Natal. November 8 – A bomb causes severe damage at the Mobil fuel storage depot in Mkuze. 20-21 – Umkhonto we Sizwe uses RPG-7s to attack a rural police station and temporary South African Army garrison at Tonga. December 10 – The South African Defence Force stages a pre-dawn raid on houses inhabited by African National Congress in Maseru, Lesotho. 16 – The United Freedom Front bombs offices of South African Airways in Elmont, NY and IBM in Harrison, NY. 18-19 – Four explosions cause massive damage at the Koeberg nuclear power station just north of Cape Town. 31 – A bomb damages the Johannesburg Magistrates court 200m from John Vorster Square. One person is killed and 70 injured in a bomb blast at the Southern Free State Administration Board in Bloemfontein. Unknown date Bulelani Ngcuka is jailed for three years for refusing to give evidence in the political trial of Patrick Maqubele and others. South Africa adopts a brighter version of the 1928 flag. Births 2 January – Ricky Januarie, rugby player. 8 March – Brett Evans, football player. 17 March – Steven Pienaar, football player. 18 March – Sisanda Henna, producer, director, and actor. 24 March – Fourie du Preez, rugby player. 2 May – Johan Botha (cricketer), cricketer. 18 May – Katlego Mashego, football player. 11 June – Chere Burger, dressage rider. 9 June – Reneilwe Letsholonyane, football player. 25 July – Monde Zondeki, cricketer 27 August – Khuli Chana, Motswako rapper. 6 October – Gio Aplon, rugby player. 19 October – Louis Oosthuizen, golfer. 21 October – Thapelo Mokoena, actor. 16 November Anke Pietrangeli, singer. Jannie du Plessis, rugby player. 9 December – Lee-Ann Liebenberg, model. She is notable as 2005 FHM-South Africa's Sexiest Woman In the World. 22 December – Teko Modise, football player. Deaths 5 February – Neil Aggett, trade unionist and activist. (b. 1953) 29 March – H. Selby Msimang, journalist and activist. (b. 1886) 16 July – Charles Robberts Swart, last Governor-General and first State President. (b. 1894) 17 August – Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist and scholar. (b. 1925) 20 August –