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