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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during1942 in South Africa.

• Monarch: KingGeorge VI.
• Governor-General andHigh Commissioner for Southern Africa:Sir Patrick Duncan
• Prime Minister:Jan Christiaan Smuts.
• Chief Justice:Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet.

• 5 May – 6 November –South African 7th Motorised Brigade andSouth African Air Force join theallied forces inOperation Ironclad to captureMadagascar.
• 29 November –Blue Star Line cargo linerMV Dunedin Star runs aground on theSkeleton Coast ofSouth West Africa.^[1]

• 12 April –Jacob Zuma,African National Congress president and 3rdPresident of South Africa.
• 22 May –Pallo Jordan, African National Congress politician and fake PhD.
• 24 May –Ali Bacher, cricketer and cricket administrator.
• 18 June –Thabo Mbeki, 2nd President of South Africa.
• 25 June –Joe Mafela, actor (d. 2017).
• 28 June –Chris Hani, leader of theSouth African Communist Party and chief of staff ofUmkhonto we Sizwe. (d. 1993).
• 8 August –Douglas Gibson, politician and diplomat (d. 2025).
• 30 August –John Kani, actor and playwright.

• 25 April –John Royston, soldier and farmer. (b. 1860)
• 16 June –Jack Frost,Second World War fighter pilot, is reported missing in action.^[2] (b. 1918)

• 1942 in South Africa

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