1957 in South Africa

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.

Births

• 26 May 26 – Dan Roodt, activist, author and politician.

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]

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