1977 in South Africa
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Incumbents
Events
- January
- 8 – The railway line near Soweto is maliciously damaged.
- February
- 1 – KwaZulu is granted self-governance.
- 24 – A bomb explodes at the Daveyton Police Station, causing only superficial damage.
- March
- 5 – British Formula One racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his car strikes marshal Frederik Jansen van Vuuren, who is also killed.
- 7 – A Pretoria restaurant is destroyed by a bomb.
- April
- 1 – Pik Botha, South Africa's ambassador in the United States of America, is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- June
- 4 – Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, is served a 5-year restriction order.
- 15 – Monty Motlaung and Solomon Mahlangu, two Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres, are arrested by police in a warehouse in Goch Street, Johannesburg. Two bystanders are killed during the arrest, Motlaung ends up brain damaged and Mahlangu was later tried and hanged.
- 29 – The United Party is renamed the New Republic Party.
- July
- 15 – The railway line at Umlazi in Durban is maliciously damaged.
- 29 – The "Antipolis", a Greek oil tanker, runs aground on the rocks near Victoria Road in Oudekraal, Cape Town, while being towed to a wrecker's yard.
- August
- A Soviet surveillance satellite detects South Africa's nuclear test preparations and alerts the United States.
- Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko is detained for breaking a banning order.[1]:18
- September
- 12 – Steve Biko dies in police detention in Pretoria.[1]:19
- 23 – The Netherlands suspends its cultural agreement with South Africa.
- November
- 4 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 418, placing a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa, is passed.[1]:19
- 25 – Fourteen people are injured when a bomb explodes at the Carlton Centre.
- 30 – A bomb explodes on a Pretoria-bound train.
- 30 – A whites only general election is held. The National Party wins.
- The railway at Dunswart (Boksburg) and Apex (Benoni) is maliciously damaged and a train driver is slightly injured.
- December
- 12 – Guerrillas attack the Germiston police station.
- 14 – A bomb explodes at the Benoni railway station.
- 16 – The Venpet-Venoil collision between two supertankers occurs off the coast of Cape St. Francis.
- 22 – An unexploded bomb is found in OK Bazaars in Roodepoort.
- Unknown date
- Former members of the United Party join the Progressive Reform Party, which is renamed the Progressive Federal Party.
- Cedric Mayson, a Methodist minister, is banned for 5 years.
Births
- 11 May – Victor Matfield, Springbok rugby player.
- 12 November – Benni McCarthy, soccer striker.
- 12 November – Susan Wessels, field hockey player.
- 17 November – Ryk Neethling, swimmer.
Deaths
- 8 March – Moses Kottler, sculptor, dies in Johannesburg at the age of 81.
- 29 April – Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker, journalist and anti-apartheid activist, dies at the age of 56 from suspected heart failure on a flight from London to Berlin.
- 9 September – Leonard Mandla Nkosi, a special branch policeman who was a former African National Congress member, is murdered.
- 12 September – Steve Biko dies in police detention.
Railways
Locomotives
- The South African Railways places the first of 150 Class 6E1, Series 7 electric locomotives in mainline service.[2][3]
Sports
Motorsport
- 5 March – The South African Grand Prix takes place at Kyalami.
References
- 1 2 3 Jeffery, Anthea (2009). People's War - New Light on the Struggle for South Africa (1st ed.). Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86842-357-6.
- ↑ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
- ↑ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 128–129. ISBN 0869772112.
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