• Source: 1944 in South Africa
    • The following lists events that happened during 1944 in South Africa.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: King George VI.
      Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet.
      Prime Minister: Jan Christiaan Smuts.
      Chief Justice: Ernest Frederick Watermeyer.


      Events



      4 April – An Allied surveillance aircraft of 60 Squadron SAAF photographs part of Auschwitz concentration camp.


      Births


      12 January – Eileen KaNkosi-Shandu, leader of the Inkatha Women Brigade.
      27 February – Graeme Pollock, former cricketer & cricket administrator
      3 March – Jerrold Kessel, South-African-born Israeli journalist and author. (d. 2011)
      9 March – Lee Irvine, cricketer
      23 June – Clive Barker (soccer), 1996 Africa Cup of Nations winning coach


      Deaths


      19 September – Johannes Jacobus le Roux, Second World War fighter pilot, dies in an aircraft accident in France.


      Railways


      The Namaqualand Railway line from Port Nolloth to O'okiep is closed.


      Sports




      References

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