The following is a list of people who served as governor-general of South Africa from independence in 1910 to the establishment of a republic in 1961. But before that it was called governor of Cape Colony

List of governors-general of South Africa [ change | change source ]

Herbert Gladstone 31 May 1910 ? 8 September 1914

Sydney Buxton 1914?1920

Prince Arthur of Connaught 20 November 1920 ? 21 January 1924

Alexander Cambridge 21 January 1924 ? 21 December 1930

George Villiers 26 January 1931 ? 5 April 1937

Patrick Duncan 5 April 1937 ? 17 July 1943

Gideon Brand van Zyl 1 January 1946 ? 1 January 1951

Ernest George Jansen 1 January 1951 ? 25 November 1959

Charles Robberts Swart 11 December 1959 ? 30 April 1961

after that, it was called state president