Cabinet Post Minister Term Party Prime Minister Gen. Barry Hertzog19381939 UP Minister of External Affairs Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Jan Smuts19381939 UP Minister of Justice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry The Hon. W. R. Collins MP 1938 – UP Minister of Commerce and Industry The Hon. Oswald Pirow MP19381939 UP Minister of Defence Minister of Education The Hon. Henry Fagan MP19381939 UP Minister of Native Affairs Minister of Social Welfare Minister of Finance The Hon. N. C. Havenga MP 1938 1939 UP Minister of Interior Affairs The Hon. Richard Stuttaford MP19381939 UP Minister of Public Health Minister of Labour The Hon. Harry Lawrence MP 1938 1939 UP Minister of Lands The Hon. Jan Kemp MP 1938 1939 UP Minister of Mines The Hon. Deneys Reitz MP 1938 1939 UP Minister of Posts and Telegraphs The Hon. C. F. Clarkson MP19381939 UP Minister of Public Works Minister of Railways and Harbours The Hon. Adriaan Fourie MP 1938 1939 UP Minister without Portfolio The Hon. Robert Henderson MP 1938 1939 UPChanges 5 September 1939 Smuts became Prime Minister and formed his own cabinet after Hertzog was deposed by the party caucus. Post Minister Term Party Prime Minister Gen. Jan Smuts19391943 UP Minister of Defence Minister of External Affairs Deputy Prime Minister The Hon. Deneys Reitz MP1939Dec 1942 UP Minister of Native Affairs Minister of Agriculture and Forestry The Hon. W. R. Collins MP 1938 1943 UP Minister of Commerce and Industry The Hon. Richard Stuttaford MP 1939 1941 UP Minister of Education The Hon. J. F. H. Hofmeyer MP19391943 UP Minister of Finance Minister of Interior Affairs The Hon. Harry Lawrence MP19391943 UP Minister of Public Health Minister of Justice The Hon. C. F. Steyn MP 1939 1943 UP Minister of Labour The Hon. Walter Madeley MP19391943 Labour Minister of Social Welfare Minister of Lands The Hon. A.M. Conroy MP 1939 1943 UP Minister of Mines The Hon. C. F. Stallard MP 1939 1943 Dominion Minister of Posts and Telegraphs The Hon. C. F. Clarkson MP19391943 UP Minister of Public Works Minister without Portfolio The Hon. P. V. G. van der Byl MP 1939 1943 UPChanges 1941 Post Minister Term Party Minister of Commerce and Industry The Hon. Sidney Waterson MP 1941 1943 UP

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