1942 in South Africa

Events

• 5 May-6 November - South African 7th Motorized Brigade and South African Air Force join the allied forces in Operation Ironclad to capture Madagascar

Births

• 12 April - Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, African National Congress president, is born in Inkandla, KwaZulu-Natal
• 22 May - Zweledinga Pallo Jordan, politician
• 24 May - Aaron Bacher, cricket administrator
• 18 June - Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, 2nd Post Apartheid President of South Africa

Deaths

• 25 April - John Robinson Royston, soldier and farmer, died in Durban at the age of 81
• 16 June - John Everitt Frost, World War II fighter pilot reported missing in action in North Africa