February

• 9 February – A 600MW generator failed catastrophically while performing over speed testing at Duvha Power Station
  Duvha Power Station
  Duvha Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is a coal-fired power plant operated by Eskom. The tall chimneys at Duvha are the tallest structures in Africa.-History:...
  
   

March

• 24 March – Henry Gordon Makgothi, teacher, defiance campaigner and 1956 treason trialist (b. 1928)

• 2 June – Albertina Sisulu
  Albertina Sisulu
  Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu was a black South African anti–apartheid activist, and the widow of fellow activist Walter Sisulu . She was affectionately known as Ma Sisulu throughout her lifetime by the South African public. In 2004 she was voted 57th in the SABC3's Great South Africans...
  
  , anti–apartheid activist, (widow of activist Walter Sisulu
  Walter Sisulu
  Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress .-Family and Education:...
  
  ) (b. 1918)
• 22 June – Kader Asmal
  Kader Asmal
  Kader Asmal was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and has two sons...
  
  , politician (b. 1934)