1972 in South Africa
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Incumbents
Events
- May
- 3 – Onkgopotse Abram Tiro is expelled from the University of the North and students protest the expulsion.
- 4 – South Africa and Lesotho decide to establish reciprocal consular representation.
- August
- 12 – The Oswego-Guardian and Texanita, two oil tankers, collide near Stilbaai.
- October
- 1 – 1 Reconnaissance Commando is established at Oudtshoorn.
- Unknown date
- A South African special forces team carry out a submarine-borne raid on the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam using the SAS Emily Hobhouse, a Daphne class submarine.
- The South African Police deploys to South West Africa.
- Conscription for all white males is extended from 9 to 12 months, followed by a 19-day annual call-up for five years.
- Operation Plathond, a joint South African Defence Force and South African Bureau of State Security operation, is launched to train dissident Zambians in the Caprivi Strip, South West Africa.
Births
- 12 March – Arno Carstens, lead singer of the rock group Springbok Nude Girls, is born in Worcester.
- 25 August – Elmarie Gerryts, pole vaulter.
- 8 September – Os du Randt, Springbok rugby player.
Deaths
- 14 May – Lawrence G. Green, author, dies in Cape Town at the age of 72. (b. 1900)
- 11 August – Max Theiler, a virologist and the first South African to receive a Nobel Prize (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), dies in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 73. (b. 1899)
- 7 September – Cyprian Shilakoe, artist and sculpturer, is killed in a vehicle accident in Krugersdorp, Transvaal.
Railways
Locomotives
- In March the South African Railways places the first of seventy Class 35-000 General Electric type U15C diesel-electric locomotives in branchline service.[1][2]
References
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