page_title: 2001 in South Africa
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2001 in South Africa / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Govan Mbeki's mugshot taken by the police during the Lilies Leaf Farm raid in July 1963.
context_page_description: The following lists events that happened during 2001 in South Africa.
context_section_description: 26 April – Frederick Guy Butler, poet, academic and writer (b. 1918)
  1 June – Nkosi Johnson, HIV/AIDS activist. (b. 1989)
  13 August – Fanie du Plessis, athlete. (b. 1930)
  19 August – Donald Woods, journalist and activist. (b. 1933)
  30 August – Govan Mbeki, South African political activist and the father of Thabo Mbeki. (b. 1910)
  2 September – Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgeon. (b. 1922)
  26 November – Joe Modise, South African political activist. (b. 1929)
  4 December – Marike de Klerk, former first lady. (b. 1941)
caption: Govan Mbeki
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