1998 in South Africa

Categories: Years in South Africa | 1998

See also: 1997 in South Africa, other events of 1998, 1999 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 March 1.2 June 1.3 July 1.4 September 1.5 Unknown date 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

March

• 9 March - Robert McBride, a official in the Department of Foreign Affairs is arrested by the Mozambican police in Ressano Garcia, Mozambique for gun smuggling
• 19 March - Makhaya Ntini becomes the first black person to represent South Africa in a five-day test cricket match
• 21 March - The Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA) is started

June

• 4 June - Ferdi Barnard, Civil Cooperation Bureau member, receives 2 life sentences plus 63 years in prison for the murder of David Webster
• * 5 June - Thulane Malinga, super middleweight boxer, wins the World Boxing Federation (WBF) title

July

• 16 July - Bulelani Ngcuka is elected as the first National Director of Public Prosecutions

September

• 14 September - Robert McBride, a official in the Department of Foreign Affairs, is conditionally released from prison in Mozambique

Unknown date

• The Black Tie Ensemble is founded Mimi Coertse and Neels Hansen

Births

Deaths

• 4 May - Worsie Visser (35), singer, is killed when his plane crashes at Saldanha Bay, Western Cape
• 7 May - Allan Cormack (74), physicist, dies of cancer in Massachuetts
• 17 December - Dorothy Nyembe, a political activist passes away