1976 in South Africa
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See also: 1975 in South Africa, other events of 1976, 1977 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January
- 5 January - SABC begins country's first television service
[edit] March
- 27 March - The South African Defence Force withdraw from Angola and end Operation Savannah
[edit] May
- 29 May - Eskom announces that it will order two nuclear power stations from France
[edit] June
- 16 June - Student riots break out in Soweto; Hector Pieterson and Hastings Ndlovu are some of the casualties
- 23 June - B.J. Vorster, the Prime Minister of South Africa, and Henry Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State, hold talks in West Germany over the Rhodesian issue
[edit] August
- 25-26 August - The Prime Minister of South Africa, B.J. Vorster and the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda meet at Victoria Falls
[edit] September
- 13 September - The Cillié Commission of Inquiry into the riots in Soweto on 16 June start
- 30 September - Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest and social activist, arrives in Lesotho after his visa was not renewed in South Africa
[edit] Unknown date
- Umkhonto we Sizwe's central operations headquarters is set up, and the process of establishing training camps in Angola begin with the Gabela Training Camp becoming the first to be established
[edit] Births
- March 5 — Wayne Denne, field hockey player
- April 5 — David Staniforth, field hockey goalkeeper
- July 3 — Robert Brian Skinstad, South Africa national rugby union team captain, is born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
[edit] Deaths
- 16 June - Hector Pieterson, a 12 year old boy, killed by police 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
