1976 in South Africa

See also: 1975 in South Africa, other events of 1976, 1977 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

[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
• 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