List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1972 in South Africa.
Incumbents
Events
- May
- August
- October
- Unknown date
Births
- 2 February – Hendrick Ramaala, long-distance runner.
- 4 February – Sthandiwe Kgoroge, actress.
- 21 February – Mark Andrews (rugby player), rugby player.
- 12 March – Arno Carstens, singer-songwriter, lead singer of Springbok Nude Girls.
- 22 March – Baby Cele, actress.
- 26 March – Willem Jackson, football player
- 3 April – Alfred Ntombela, actor.
- 21 June – Irene van Dyk, South African and New Zealand netball player.
- 23 June – Slindile Nodangala, actress.
- 15 July – Sophie Ndaba, actress.
- 16 August – James Dalton (rugby player), rugby player.
- 25 August – Elmarie Gerryts, pole vaulter.
- 8 September – Os du Randt, Springboks rugby player.
- 16 October – Jacques Nienaber, Springboks coach.
- 28 October – David James, actor.
- 31 October – Shaun Bartlett, former soccer player & coach.
- 14 November – Florence Masebe, actress.
- 7 December – Sean Dundee, football player.
- 16 December – Kuli Roberts, journalist, TV presenter, author
- 23 December – Somizi Mhlongo, choreographer, actor and radio personality.
- 26 December – Colleen Piketh, lawn bowler
Deaths
Railways
Locomotives
- In March the South African Railways places the first of seventy Class 35-000 General Electric type U15C diesel-electric locomotives in branchline service.
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Sovereign states |
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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States with limited recognition |
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Somaliland
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Dependencies and other territories |
- Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain)
- Madeira (Portugal)
- Mayotte / Réunion (France)
- Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)
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