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.
Events
January
- 5 January - SABC begins country's first television service.
May
- 29 May - Eskom announces that it will order two nuclear power stations from France
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
August
- 25-26 August - The Prime Minister of South Africa, B.J. Vorster and the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda meet at Victoria Falls
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
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
Births
- 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, killed by police
- 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
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