1941 in South Africa

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← 1940 1939 1938 1941 in South Africa → 1942 1943 1944
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1941 in South Africa.

Incumbents[edit]

• 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[edit]

May

• 28 – Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, is appointed as a Field Marshal of the British Army.^[1]
• The 13-year-old George Bizos, with his father, help 7 New Zealand soldiers escape Nazi occupied Greece to Crete.

December

• 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[edit]

• 30 January – Henry Cele, actor (d. 2008)
• 31 January – Eugène Terre'Blanche, Afrikaner right-wing founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging. (d. 2010)
• 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 (d. 2020)
• 2 September – David Bale, businessman, father of Christian Bale and husband of Gloria Steinem. (d. 2003)
• 6 September – Monica Mason, ballet dancer and administrator
• 10 September – Christo Wiese, businessman and former billionaire, chairman of Pepkor
• 25 September – Rick Turner, activist and academic. (d. 1978)

Deaths[edit]

• 20 April – Pat Pattle DFC and Bar, fighter pilot. (b. 1914)
• 11 June – Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader and visionary.
• 17 September – Newell Orton, fighter pilot.

Railways[edit]

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Sports[edit]

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