1972 in South Africa
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See also: 1971 in South Africa, other events of 1972, 1973 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
[edit] Events
- A South African recce team carry out a submarine-borne raid (using the SAS Emily Hobhouse, a Daphne class submarine) on the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam placeing limpet mines on power lines, a bridge and the Rolls-Royce car belonging to the British High Commissioner
- 3 May - Onkgopotse Abram Tiro is expelled from University of the North and students protest the expulsion
- 4 May - South Africa and Lesotho decided to establish reciprocal consular representation
[edit] Births
- 12 March — Arno Carstens, lead singer of the rock group Springbok Nude Girls, is born in Worcester
- August 25 — Elmarie Gerryts, pole vaulter
- 8 September — Os du Randt, Springboks rugby player
[edit] Deaths
- 14 May - Lawrence George Green, author, dies in Cape Town at the age of 72
- 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
