1957 in South Africa

none August 2020 December 2013 1957 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.United Nations Treaty Series No. 4234: Agreement for co-operation concerning the civil uses of atomic energy https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20290/volume-290-I-4234-English.pdf United Nations Treaties 22 June 2024 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) Railways thumb|Class 5E, Series 2 Locomotives The South African Railways places the first of forty-five Class 5E, Series 2 electric locomotives in mainline service.127-128 References 30em 1957 in collapsed