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

The following lists events that happened during1945 in South Africa.

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

• 22 May – TheSouth African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is established.
• 26 June –Prime MinisterJan Smuts represents South Africa in San Francisco at the drafting of theUnited Nations Charter.

• 3 February –Marius Weyers, actor
• 8 June –Nicky Oppenheimer, mining magnate
• 27 June –Omar Badsha,photographer, trade unionist and political activist.
• 21 July –Barry Richards, cricketer
• 28 September –Pieter-Dirk Uys, performer, author, satirist, and social activist.
• 5 October –Riaan Cruywagen, news reader and voice artist
• 16 October –Kaizer Motaung, footballer, founder & chairman ofKaizer Chiefs F.C.
• 22 October –Lillian Dube, actress & TV host
• 17 December –Belinda Bozzoli, academic and politician (d.2020)

• 4 June – Transvaal:Village Main (Booysens) to Faraday, 1 mile 11 chains (1.8 kilometres).^[1]

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