At a meeting in Capetown on February 22nd., 1942, with the Mayor presiding, a Southern African Branch of the Institution was formed. The Governor- General of the Union is its patron, Field-Marshal Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union, is its president, and Sir Herbert Stanley, late Govenor and Commander-in- Chief of Southern Rhodesia, is its chairman. The branch is aiming to raise £10,000 to provide a motor life-boat to be named "Field-Marshal and Mrs. Smuts".

Already it has sent the Institution £2,000. In addition South Africans have given £7798 since the outbreak of war. Such is the result of the appeal which Miss Pattie Price launched in South Africa two and a half years ago..