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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.
• 14 November - Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, landscape artist.
• 10 December - James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of the Kruger National Park.

  Railways

Locomotives

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