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1971 In South Africa ,
Other Events Of 1972 ,
1973 In South Africa and the
Timeline Of South African History .

EVENTS

A South African Recce Team carry out a submarine-borne raid (using the SAS Emily Hobhouse , a Daphne Class Submarine ) on the Tanzania n 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 student protests the expulsion

4 May - South Africa and Lesotho decided to establish reciprocal consular representation

BIRTHS

12 March - Arno Carstens , lead singer of the rock group Springbok Nude Girls , is born in Worcester

DEATHS

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