1977 in South Africa
See also: 1976 in South Africa, other events of 1977, 1978 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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Events
January
February
- 24 February – A bomb explodes at the Daveyton Police Station which cause only structural damage
March
April
- 1 April – Pik Botha, South Africa's ambassador in the United States of America is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
June
- 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
July
- 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
August
- A Soviet surveillance satellite detects South Africa's nuclear test preparations and alerts the United States
September
- 6 September – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967
November
- 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
December
- 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
Unknown date
- Former members of the United Party leave and join the Progressive Reform Party, which is renamed the Progressive Federal Party
Births
Deaths
- 8 March – Moses Kottler, a sculptor, dies in Johannesburg at the age of 81
- 9 September – Leonard Mandla Nkosi, a 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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