1998 in South Africa

Events

9 March - Robert McBride, an official in the Department of Foreign Affairs is arrested by the Mozambican police in Ressano Garcia, Mozambique for gun smuggling
18 March - An ex Rhodesian Royal Air Force Percival Provost Mk 52, which had only recently been restored to flying condition by the South African Air Force Museum. The pilot, Rick Culpan who was a test pilot for Denel Aviation, dies 4 days later from his injuries.
21 March - The Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA) is started

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

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

25 August - A pipe bomb explodes at Cape Town's Victoria & Alfred Waterfront's Planet Hollywood restaurant seroiusly injuring 26 people which two later died in hospital

14 September - Robert McBride, an official in the Department of Foreign Affairs, is conditionally released from prison in Mozambique
16 September - A South African Air Force Impala I crashes at AFB Bloemspruit

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