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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 – Eugene 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 Stockenstrom le Fleur, Griqua leader and visionary.
• 17 September – Newell Orton, fighter pilot.

Railways [ edit ]

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Sports [ edit ]

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