1910 in South Africa

Events

May

• 31 May - The formation of the Union of South Africa
  • Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone becomes the first Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
  • Louis Botha becomes the first Prime Minister of South Africa

South Africa was given independence by United Kingdom

Unknown date

• Girl Guides started
• White population in South Africa - 21.5%
• The Witwatersrand gold mine owners are pressurised to improve sanitary conditions as a third of the black miners are dying of pneumonia
• The Pretoria and Johannesburg branches of the Transvaal University College split into independent institutions, the branches later becoming the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand respectively

Births

• 24 March - Adolph Gysbert Malan, World War II fighter pilot, is born Wellington, Western Cape
• 30 September - Gagathura Mohambry Naicker, a medical doctor and prominent politician, is born