1941 in South Africa

1941 in South Africa

"See also:"
1940 in South Africa,
other events of 1941,
1942 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

* May - A 13 year old George Bizos with his father help 7 New Zealand soldiers escape Nazi occupied Greece to Crete
* 28 May - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, becomes a Field Marshal of the British Army
* 8 December - The Union of South Africa declares war on Finland, Rumania, Hungary and Japan
* 31 December - The Union of South Africa declares war on Bulgaria

Births

* Richard Turner, activist and academic, is born in Cape Town
* 31 January - Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche, an Afrikaner right-wing who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, is born in Ventersdorp

Deaths

* 20 April - Marmaduke Pattle, the highest scoring fighter pilot of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Forces is shot down and killed over Greece
* 11 June - Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader and visionary, dies in Krantzhoek (Plettenberg Bay area)
* 17 September - Newell Orton, fighter pilot is killed in action


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