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1973 in South Africa

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Incumbents

  • State President: Jacobus Johannes Fouché

    • Events

    January
  • 8 – Two South African policemen are killed and two injured in an explosion near the Zambezi River in north-western Rhodesia.
    • February
  • 1 – Venda and Gazankulu are granted self-government.
    • March
  • Steve Biko is banned by the government.
    • August
  • 25 – Harry Schwarz, leader of the liberal "Young Turks", wins the leadership of the United Party in the Transvaal, replacing its long-time leader Marais Steyn.
    • Unknown date
  • The Natal Parks Board starts buying up farms to form the Itala Game Reserve.
  • Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, arrives in South Africa.
  • African and Arab states impose an oil embargo on South Africa.

    • Births

  • 8 March – Jill Brukman, backstroke and medley swimmer.
  • 19 July – Nathalie Boltt, actress.
  • 18 November – Michele MacNaughton, field hockey player.

    • Locomotives

    Two new Cape gauge and one narrow gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

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  • April – The first of one hundred Class 34-400 General Electric (GE) type U26C diesel-electric locomotives.
  • The first of one hundred Class 6E1, Series 4 electric locomotives.
  • September-December – Twenty Class 91-000 GE type UM6B narrow gauge diesel-electric locomotives on the Avontuur Railway.

    • References

    1973 in South Africa Wikipedia
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