1957 in South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during 1957 in South Africa.
Incumbents
[edit]- 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
[edit]- January
- 30 – The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy.
- May
- 2 – Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the official National Anthem
- July
- 8 – 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.[1]
- December
- 16 – 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
[edit]- 7 January – Ivan Glasenberg, billionaire businessman.
- 23 March – Edna Molewa, politician.
- 26 May – Dan Roodt, activist, author and politician.
- June – Peter de Villiers, Springboks coach.
- 14 September; Kepler Wessels, cricketer.
Deaths
[edit]- 23 April – Roy Campbell, poet and satirist. (b. 1901)
- 14 November – Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, landscape artist. (b. 1886)
- 10 December – James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of the Kruger National Park. (b. 1867)
Railways
[edit]Locomotives
[edit]- The South African Railways places the first of forty-five Class 5E, Series 2 electric locomotives in mainline service.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ United Nations. "Treaty Series No. 4234: Agreement for co-operation concerning the civil uses of atomic energy" (PDF). United Nations Treaties. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 127–128. ISBN 0869772112.
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