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1976 in South Africa

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Incumbents

  • State President: Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs
  • Events

    January
  • 5 – The SABC begins the country's first television service.
  • March
  • 27 – The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah.
  • May
  • 29 – Eskom announces that it will order two nuclear power stations from France.
  • June
  • 16 – Student riots break out in Soweto and Hector Pieterson, Hastings Ndlovu and two white officials of the West Rand Board are some of the casualties.
  • 23 – B.J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, hold talks in West Germany over the Rhodesian issue.
  • August
  • 25–26 – The Prime Minister of South Africa, B.J. Vorster and the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda meet at Victoria Falls.
  • September
  • 13 – The Cillié Commission of Inquiry into the 16 June riots in Soweto begins.
  • 30 – Michael Lapsley, Anglican priest and social activist, arrives in Lesotho after his visa was not renewed in South Africa.
  • October
  • 26 – Transkei gains complete independence from South Africa.
  • Unknown date
  • Umkhonto we Sizwe's central operations headquarters is established and the process of establishing training camps in Angola begins, with the Gabela Training Camp being the first to be established.
  • Births

  • 20 January – Ian Syster, long-distance runner. (d. 2004)
  • 5 March – Wayne Denne, field hockey player.
  • 5 April – David Staniforth, field hockey goalkeeper.
  • 3 July – Robert Brian Skinstad, South Africa national rugby union team captain, is born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
  • Deaths

  • 16 June – Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old boy, is killed by police during riots in Soweto.
  • 9 September – Ivan Mitford-Barberton, art teacher at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and sculptor of several monuments in South Africa, dies in Hout Bay, Cape Town at the age of 80.
  • Locomotives

    Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

    Contents

  • March – The first of one hundred Class 35-400 General Electric type U15C diesel-electric locomotives.
  • September – The first of one hundred Class 35-600 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT18MC diesel-electric locomotives.
  • The first of one hundred Class 6E1, Series 6 electric locomotives.
  • References

    1976 in South Africa Wikipedia