They would not be restored thereafter until December 1992. Births 1 February – Jeremy Maggs, journalist, radio host and television presenter. 2 February – Hastings Ndlovu, schoolboy who was shot and killed in Soweto uprising (d. 1976) 4 March – Roger Wessels, golfer. 10 April – Tian Viljoen, tennis player. 16 April – Schalk van der Merwe, tennis player. (d. 2016) 1 May – Christo Steyn, tennis player. 23 June – Ivan Wingreen, cricketer. (d. 2014). 10 July – Uli Schmidt, former rugby player & Springboks doctor. 30 August – Brian Mitchell, boxer. 6 September – Adolf Malan, rugby player. 28 September – Wayne Westner, golfer. (d. 2017) 10 October – Jonathan Butler, singer-songwriter and guitarist. 14 October – Kevin Moir, tennis player. 5 December – Ada Booyens, race walker. 27 December – Gert Smal, rugby player & coach Deaths 4 August - John Hewitt, zoologist and archaeologist (b. 1880) Railways Sports Rugby 13 May – The South African Springboks beat Ireland 24–8. References South Africa Years in South Africa History of South Africa