1957 in South Africa

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* 1970s

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*   * List of years in South Africa

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

## Incumbents

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* 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

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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

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* 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

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* 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

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Class 5E, Series 2

### Locomotives

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

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ 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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* 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
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* 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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