24397 Photograph

The Parliament Collection:
Group photograph of King George VI and the members of his South African Cabinet in 1947. Front row seated l to r: The Hon James Wellwood Mushet (Posts & Telegraphs, Public Works); the Hon Frederick Claud Sturrock (Transport); Field-Marshal the Rt Hon Jan Christiaan Smuts (Prime Minister); His Majesty King George VI; the Rt Hon Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Education, Finance); the Hon Harry Gordon Lawrence (Social Welfare & Demobilisation, Justice); the Hon Maj Andrew Meintjes Conroy (Lands). Back row standing l to r: Dr the Hon Colin Fraser Steyn (Labour); the Hon Sidney Frank Waterson (Economic Development, Mines); Maj the Hon Pieter Voltelyn Graham Van der Byl (Native Affairs); the Hon Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss (Agriculture & Forestry); Dr the Hon Henry Gluckman (Health). Cabinet member absent from photo: Sen Charles Francis Clarkson (Interior).