• Source: 1971 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1971 in South Africa.




Incumbents


State President: Jim Fouché.
Prime Minister: John Vorster.
Chief Justice: Lucas Cornelius Steyn then Newton Ogilvie Thompson.




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 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 SS Wafra in 6,000 feet (1,829 metres) 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.
Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi, is the first Black President to visit South Africa.




Births


20 February – Joost van der Westhuizen, rugby scrum-half (d. 2017)
3 March – Jet Novuka, actor
15 March – Naka Drotské, rugby player
8 April – Fikile Mbalula, national minister
22 April – Jannie de Beer, rugby player
13 May – Fana Mokoena, actor
28 June – Elon Musk, South African-born Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor
21 July – Robby Brink, rugby player
30 July – Mzukisi Sikali, triple world champion boxer (d. 2005)
4 September – Lance Klusener, cricket player
15 September – Wayne Ferreira, tennis player
28 September – Braam van Straaten, rugby player
8 October – Krynauw Otto, rugby player
22 October – Amanda Coetzer, tennis player
26 October – Brendan Augustine, soccer player
12 November – Gert Thys, long-distance runner
14 November – Nick Boraine, actor
29 November – Esme Kruger, lawn bowler
3 December – Pieter Rossouw, rugby player
17 December – Alan Khan, media and radio personality




Deaths


27 October – Ahmed Timol, activist and political leader. (b. 1941)




Railways






= Locomotives

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

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.




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