1957 in South Africa

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


 * 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.


 * 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

 * 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)

Locomotives

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