1941 in South Africa

Incumbents

• Monarch: King George VI.
• Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir Patrick Duncan
• Prime Minister: Jan Christiaan Smuts.
• Chief Justice: James Stratford then Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet.

  Events

• 28 - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, is appointed as a Field Marshal of the British Army.
• The 13-year-old George Bizos, with his father, help 7 New Zealand soldiers escape Nazi occupied Greece to Crete.

• 8 - The Union of South Africa declares war on Finland, Romania, Hungary and Japan.
• 31 - The Union of South Africa declares war on Bulgaria.

  Births

• 30 January - Henry Cele, actor
• 31 January - Eugène Terre'Blanche, Afrikaner right-wing founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.
• 2 April - Njongonkulu Ndungane, Anglican bishop & a former prisoner on Robben Island
• 30 June - Peter Pollock, cricketer, brother of cricket administrator Graeme Pollock, father of cricketer Shaun Pollock
• 28 August - Joseph Shabalala, musician & founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• 2 September - David Bale, businessman, father of Christian Bale and husband of Gloria Steinem.
• 10 September - Christo Wiese, businessman and former billionaire, chairman of Pepkor
• 25 September - Rick Turner, activist and academic.

  Deaths

• 20 April - Pat Pattle DFC and Bar, fighter pilot.
• 11 June - Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader and visionary.
• 17 September - Newell Orton, fighter pilot.

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