The following lists events that happened during 1972 in South Africa.

1972
in
South Africa

Decades:
See also:

Incumbents

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Events

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May
August
October
Unknown date

Births

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Deaths

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Class 35-000 (GE U15C)
  • 11 August – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and physician and Nobel Prize laureate. (b. 1899)

Railways

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Locomotives

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  • In March the South African Railways places the first of seventy Class 35-000 General Electric type U15C diesel-electric locomotives in branchline service.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
  2. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Colleen PIKETH Profile". results.glasgow2014.com. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  3. ^ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610 mm and 1065 mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
  4. ^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 141–142. ISBN 0869772112.