1957 in South Africa

Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	; List of years in South Africa;

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

Incumbents

30 – The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy.

2 – Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the official National Anthem

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]

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.

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)

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

^ 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.
^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 127–128. ISBN 0869772112.