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1971 in South Africa

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Incumbents

  • State President: Jacobus Johannes Fouché

    • Events

    February
  • 27 – The oil tanker Wafra grounds near Cape Agulhas, causing considerable environmental damage.
    • March
  • 10 – Two Buccaneer aircraft of 24 Squadron SAAF, prescribed to by Headquarters, attempt to sink the SS Wafra with AS-30 missiles, but succeeds only in starting a fire.
  • 12 – A Shackleton aircraft of 35 Squadron SAAF, not prescribed to by Headquarters, sinks the SS Wafra in 1,830 metres (6,000 ft) of water using depth charges.
    • Unknown date
  • St Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of Maputaland are listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (RAMSAR).
  • The International Court of Justice gives an advisory opinion, supporting the view of the United Nations for South Africa to relinquish control of South West Africa.

    • Births

  • 28 April – Sifiso Adlin Emmanuel Zondo.
  • 30 July – Mzukisi Sikali, world champion boxer. (d. 2005)
  • 12 November – Gert Thys, long-distance runner.
  • 17 December – Alan Khan, radio disk jockey.

    • Deaths

  • March – Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane, artist, dies from tuberculosis at the age of 33.
  • 27 October – Ahmed Timol dies in police detention. (b. 1941)
  • John Beaver Marks, political activist and trade unionist, dies in Moscow, Russia, after suffering a heart attack.

    • Locomotives

    Four new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

    Contents

  • July – The first of 125 Class 34-000 General Electric type U26C diesel-electric locomotives.
  • October – The first of fifty Class 34-200 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT26MC diesel-electric locomotives.
  • Fifty Class 6E1, Series 2 electric locomotives.
  • The first of one hundred and fifty Class 6E1, Series 3 locomotives.

    • References

    1971 in South Africa Wikipedia
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