– Schalk van der Merwe, rugby player 6 December – Chloé Dépouilly, figure skater 16 December – Cassper Nyovest, rapper and record producer 24 December – Liesl Laurie, Miss South Africa 2015 Deaths 16 January – Gert van Rooyen, paedophile and serial killer. (b. 1938) 17 April – Jafta Masemola, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress. (b. 1929) 23 October – Zephania Mothopeng, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress. (b. 1913) Railways Locomotives Spoornet places the first of fifty Class 10E1, Series 2 electric locomotives in mainline service. Spoornet begins to semi-permanently couple pairs of otherwise unmodified Class 6E1 electric locomotives and reclassify them to Class 16E. Sports Athletics 24 February – David Tsebe wins his first national title in the men's marathon, clocking 2:09:50 in Port Elizabeth. References South Africa Years in South Africa History of South Africa