Cabinet Post Minister Term Party Prime Minister Gen. Jan Smuts19391948 UP Minister of Defence Minister of External Affairs Deputy Prime Minister The Hon. J. F. H. Hofmeyr MP 1943 1948 UP Minister of Agriculture and Forestry The Hon. J. G. N. Strauss MP 1944 1948 UP The Hon. W. R. Collins MP 1938 1944 UP Minister of Economic Development The Hon. Sidney Waterson MP 1941 1948 UP Minister of Education The Hon. J. F. H. Hofmeyr MP 1939 1948 UP Minister of Finance The Hon. J. F. H. Hofmeyr MP 1939 1948 UP Minister of Interior Affairs The Hon. C. F. Clarkson MP 1943 1948 UP Minister of Justice The Hon. Harry Lawrence MP 1945 1948 UP The Hon. C. F. Steyn MP 1939 1945 UP Minister of Labour The Hon. C. F. Steyn MP 1945 1948 UP The Hon. Walter Madeley MP 1939 1945 Labour Minister of Lands and Irrigation The Hon. A. M. Conroy MP 1939 1948 UP Minister of Mines The Hon. C. F. Stallard MP 1939 1945 Dominion Minister of Native Affairs The Hon. P. V. G. van der Byl MP 1943 1948 UP Minister of Posts and Telegraphs The Hon. C. F. Clarkson MP 1933 1945 UP Minister of Public Works The Hon. C. F. Clarkson MP 1933 1945 UP Minister of Transport The Hon. F. C. Sturrock MP 1939 1948 UP Minister of Welfare and Demobilisation The Hon. Harry Lawrence MP 1939 1948 UP
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