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The following lists events that happened during 1957 in South Africa.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Ernest George Jansen.
  • Prime Minister: Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom.
  • Chief Justice: Albert van der Sandt Centlivres then Henry Allan Fagan.

Events

;January

  • 30 &ndash; The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy.

;May

  • 2 &ndash; Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the official National Anthem

;July

  • 8 &ndash; The United States and South Africa sign a nuclear cooperation agreement, the terms of which state that the United States will provide South Africa with a nuclear research reactor, supply enriched uranium as fuel, and train additional scientists and reactor technicians.

;December

  • 16 &ndash; The 45th Annual Conference of the African National Congress is held in Orlando, Johannesburg.
  • A series of shark attacks near Durban occur during Black December.

Births

  • 7 January &ndash; Ivan Glasenberg, billionaire businessman.
  • 23 March &ndash; Edna Molewa, politician.
  • 26 May &ndash; Dan Roodt, activist, author and politician.
  • June &ndash; Peter de Villiers, Springboks coach.
  • 14 September; Kepler Wessels, cricketer.

Deaths

  • 23 April &ndash; Roy Campbell, poet and satirist. (b. 1901)
  • 14 November &ndash; Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, landscape artist. (b. 1886)
  • 10 December &ndash; James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of the Kruger National Park. (b. 1867)

Railways

thumb|[[South African Class 5E, Series 2|Class 5E, Series 2]]

Locomotives

  • The South African Railways places the first of forty-five Class 5E, electric locomotives in mainline service.

References