Governor-General of South Africa

The following is a list of people who served as governor-general of South Africa from independence in 1910 to the establishment of a republic in 1961. But before that it was called governor of Cape Colony

List of governors-general of South Africa

Herbert Gladstone 31 May 1910 – 8 September 1914

Sydney Buxton 1914–1920

Prince Arthur of Connaught 20 November 1920 – 21 January 1924

Alexander Cambridge 21 January 1924 – 21 December 1930

George Villiers 26 January 1931 – 5 April 1937

Patrick Duncan 5 April 1937 – 17 July 1943

Gideon Brand van Zyl 1 January 1946 – 1 January 1951

Ernest George Jansen 1 January 1951 – 25 November 1959

Charles Robberts Swart 11 December 1959 – 30 April 1961

after that, it was called state president