List of administrators of former South African provinces

Map of the provinces of South Africa, 1910–1976.
Map of the provinces of South Africa, 1976–1994.

This article lists the administrators of former South African provinces. It includes officials who headed various provinces in the period from 1910 to 1994, when South Africa was administratively divided into four provinces:

The provinces were created in 1910 as successors of four previous British colonies in the same territory: Cape Colony (1806–1910), Colony of Natal (1843–1910), Orange River Colony (1902–10) and Transvaal Colony (1902–10). These four provinces were established as a result of the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. They survived the subsequent creation of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, and were abolished in 1994, in the wake of the first post-apartheid general election in April 1994.

Cape Province

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Map of the Cape Province (red) within South Africa.
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Nicolaas Frederic de Waal
(1853–1932)[a] 		31 May 1910 December 1925 15 years, 6 months
2 Adriaan Paulus Johannes Fourie
(1882–1941) 		January 1926 August 1929 3 years, 7 months
3 Johannes Hendrik Conradie [af]
(1872–1940) 		September 1929 September 1939 10 years
4 François Allan Joubert [af]
(1889–1942) 		September 1939 September 1942 3 years
5 Gideon Brand van Zyl
(1873–1956)[b] 		2 October 1942 31 December 1945 3 years, 90 days
6 Philippus Arnoldus Myburgh [af]
(1880–1946)[c] 		1 January 1946 1 July 1946 181 days
7 Johan Carinus [af]
(1892–1960) 		23 July 1946 22 July 1951 4 years, 364 days
8 Philippus Jacobus Olivier [af]
(1901–1958) 		1 August 1951 27 March 1958 6 years, 238 days
9 Josias Hendrik Otto du Plessis
(1907–1960) 		12 May 1958 28 April 1960 1 year, 352 days
10 Johannes Nicholas Malan
(1903–1981) 		28 April 1960 1 June 1960 34 days
1 June 1960 31 May 1970 9 years, 364 days
11 Andries Heydenrich Vosloo
(1912–1982) 		1 June 1970 May 1975 4 years, 11 months
12 Lourens Albertus Petrus Anderson Munnik [af]
(1925–2016) 		June 1975 June 1979 4 years
13 Eugene "Gene" van der Merwe Louw
(1931–2015)[d] 		June 1979 July 1989 10 years, 1 month
14 Jacobus "Kobus" Meiring
(born 1936) 		July 1989 May 1994 4 years, 10 months

Natal Province

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Map of the Natal Province (red) within South Africa.
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Charles John Smythe
(1852–1918) 		May 1910 January 1918 7 years, 8 months
2 George Thomas Plowman
(1858–1943) 		February 1918 January 1928 9 years, 11 months
3 Herbert Gordon Watson
(1874–1948) 		February 1928 January 1943 14 years, 11 months
4 George Heaton Nicholls
(1876–1959) 		February 1943 November 1944 1 year, 9 months
5 Douglas Edgar Mitchell
(1896–1988) 		November 1944 February 1948 3 years, 3 months
6 Denis Gem Shepstone
(1888–1966) 		February 1948 May 1958 10 years, 3 months
7 Alfred Ernest Trollip
(1895–1972) 		June 1958 November 1961 3 years, 5 months
8 Theodor Johannes Adolph Gerdener
(1916–2013) 		November 1961 August 1970 8 years, 9 months
9 Wynand Wilhelm Benjamin Havemann
(1912–1986) 		August 1970 June 1979 8 years, 10 months
– Frank Martin
(died 1987)
Acting 		June 1979 August 1979 2 months
10 Jan Christoffel "Stoffel" Greyling Botha
(1929–1998) 		August 1979 September 1984 5 years, 1 month
– Frank Martin
(died 1987)
Acting 		September 1984 November 1984 2 months
11 Radclyffe Cadman
(1924–2011)[e] 		November 1984 April 1990 5 years, 5 months
12 Cornelius Johannes van Rooyen Botha
(1932–2014) 		April 1990 7 May 1994 4 years, 1 month

Orange Free State Province

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Map of the Orange Free State Province (red) within South Africa.
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Alfred Ernest William Ramsbottom [af]
(1860–1922) 		May 1910 May 1915 5 years
2 Cornelius Hermanus Wessels
(1851–1924)[f] 		May 1915 2 March 1924 8 years, 10 months
3 Esaias Reinier Grobler [af]
(1861–1937) 		11 March 1924 March 1929 4 years, 11 months
4 Carl Theodorus Muller Wilcocks
(1861–1936) 		March 1929 11 November 1936 7 years, 7 months
– Johannes Buys
(1859–1943)
Acting 		November 1936 December 1936 1 month
5 Johannes Frederik Janse van Rensburg
(1898–1966) 		December 1936 December 1940 4 years
6 Stephanus Philippus Barnard
(1888–1951) 		December 1940 December 1950 10 years
7 Jacobus "Jim" Johannes Fouché
(1898–1980)[g] 		1 January 1951 December 1959 8 years, 11 months
8 Johannes Willem “Sand” Jacobus Coetzee du Plessis
(1908–1994) 		December 1959 December 1969 10 years
9 Gabriel François van Lingen Froneman
(1909–1981) 		December 1969 13 December 1974 5 years
10 Abraham Cornelis van Wyk
(1911–?) 		14 December 1974 1979 5 years
11 Cornelius "Nak" van der Merwe
(1920–1985) 		1979 1980 1 year
12 Louis Johannes Botha
(1939–1999) 		November 1980 August 1991 10 years, 9 months
13 Louis van der Watt
(born 1937) 		August 1991 7 May 1994 2 years, 9 months

Transvaal Province

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Map of the Transvaal Province (red) within South Africa.
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik [af]
(1857–1925) 		31 May 1910 23 July 1917 7 years, 53 days
2 Alfred George Robertson [af]
(1867–1929) 		24 July 1917 29 February 1924 6 years, 220 days
3 Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
(1894–1948) 		1 March 1924 28 February 1929 4 years, 364 days
4 Jacobus Stephanus Smit [af]
(1878–1960) 		1 March 1929 28 February 1934 4 years, 364 days
5 Simon Potgieter Bekker
(1882–1938) 		1 March 1934 29 July 1938 4 years, 150 days
Vacant (29 July – 1 September 1938)
6 Jacobus Johannes Pienaar
(1866–1950) 		1 September 1938 31 August 1948 9 years, 365 days
Vacant (31 August – 1 November 1948)
7 William Nicol
(1887–1967) 		1 November 1948 31 October 1958 9 years, 364 days
8 Frans Hendrik Odendaal
(1898–1966) 		1 November 1958 8 February 1966 7 years, 99 days
9 Sybrand Gerhardus Johannes van Niekerk [fr]
(1914–2011) 		12 February 1966 15 July 1979 13 years, 153 days
10 Willem Adriaan Cruywagen
(1921–2013) 		16 July 1979 31 May 1988 8 years, 320 days
11 Danie Hough
(1937–2008)[h] 		1 June 1988 7 May 1994 5 years, 340 days

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ From 2 January 1911, Sir Frederic de Waal.
  2. ^ Afterwards served as the Governor-General of South Africa, from 1946 to 1951.
  3. ^ Previously served as the President of the Senate, from 1942 to 1945.
  4. ^ Afterwards served as the Speaker of the House of Assembly, from 1991 to 1994.
  5. ^ Previously served as the Leader of the Opposition, in 1977.
  6. ^ From 4 March 1920, Sir Cornelius Hermanus Wessels.
  7. ^ Afterwards served as the State President of South Africa, from 1968 to 1975.
  8. ^ Previously served as the Administrator-General of South West Africa, from 1980 to 1983.

References

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