1957 in South Africa

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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 – 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

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.

Unknown date

The United States and South Africa sign a nuclear cooperation agreement in terms of which the United States will provide South Africa with a nuclear research reactor and supply enriched uranium as fuel, as well as trained additional scientists and reactor technicians.^{[citation needed]}

Births

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

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

Class 5E, Series 2

Locomotives

The South African Railways places the first of forty-five Class 5E, Series 2 electric locomotives in mainline service.^[1]

References

^ 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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Years in South Africa (1901–present)

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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
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
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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