1977 in South Africa

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Events

1 February - The Bantustan of KwaZulu is granted self-governance
24 February - A bomb explodes at the Daveyton Police Station which cause only structural damage

1 April - Pik Botha, South Africa's ambassador in the United States of America is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs

17 May - A referendum is held in South West Africa to vote on the draft Turnhalle constitution

4 June - Father S. Mkhatshwa, Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, is served a 5 year restriction order
15 June - Monty Motlaung and Solomon Mahlangu, two Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres are arrested by police in warehouse in Goch Street, Johannesburg. Two bystanders are killed during the arrest. Later Motlaung is beaten so badly in police custody that he ends up brain damaged and Mahlangu was tried and hanged
29 June - The United Party is renamed the New Republic Party

15 July - The railway line at Umlazi in Durban is maliciously damaged
29 July - The "Antipolis", a Greek oil tanker, rans aground on the rocks near Victoria Road in Oudekraal, Cape Province while being towed to a wreckers yard

A Soviet surveillance satellite detects South Africa's nuclear test preparations and alerts the United States

The railway at between Dunswart (Boksburg) and Apex (Benoni) is maliciously damaged and a train driver is slightly injured
25 November - 14 people are injured when a bomb explodes at the Carlton Centre
30 November - A bomb explodes on a Pretoria bound train

12 December - Guerrillas attack the Germiston police station, no one hurt
14 December - A bomb explodes at Benoni's railway station
22 December - An unexploded bomb is found in OK bazaars (a nationwide supermarket) in Roodepoort

Former members of the United Party leave and join the Progressive Reform Party, which is renamed the Progressive Federal Party
Cedric Mayson, a Methodist minister, is banned for 5 years

5 March - British Formula One racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his car hits a marshal, Jansen Van Vuuren
8 March - Moses Kottler, sculptor, dies in Johannesburg at the age of 81
29 April - Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, dies, at the age of 56, from a suspected heart failure on a flight from London to Berlin
9 September - Leonard Mandla Nkosi, special branch policeman who was a former African National Congress member, is killed
12 September - Steve Biko dies in police detention

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