South Africa took part in the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The country was represented by 39 athletes, twenty-nine male and ten female.

[1] South Africans competed in archery, athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair basketball.

The Netherlands, as hosts of the 1980 Games and ironically its former colonial master, declared South Africa's further participation "undesirable".

[4][5] South Africa was subsequently absent from the Paralympic Games until 1992.