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

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

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

• 11 June - Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader and visionary, dies in Krantzhoek (Plettenberg Bay area)