The Oppenheimer Stadium disaster, or Orkney Disaster, was a crowd crush that occurred on 13 January 1991, claiming the lives of 42 people, at the Oppenheimer Stadium in the city of Orkney (200 kilometres (120 mi) from Johannesburg) in South Africa's North West province.
[1] On 13 January 1991, there was a preseason "friendly" association football match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates F.C.
The referee upheld a goal scored by Chiefs, and supporters of Pirates objected.
Panicking fans who tried to escape the brawls were trampled or crushed to death against riot-control fences.
The worst sporting incident in South Africa, the Ellis Park Stadium disaster in 2001, involved fans of the same two teams.