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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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