1941 in South Africa

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

Events

May

• 28 – Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, is appointed as a Field Marshal of the British Army.
• A 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

• 31 January – Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche, Afrikaner right-wing founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, is born in Ventersdorp.
• Richard Turner, activist and academic, is born in Cape Town.

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 in the Plettenberg Bay area.
• 17 September - Newell Orton, fighter pilot. is killed in action.