Jack Pithey

{{Short description|Rhodesian politician}}

{{Use South African English|date=May 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Jack Pithey

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| image = J Pithey.jpg

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| caption = Jack William Pithey

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| office = Acting President of Rhodesia

| term_start = 1 November 1978

| term_end = 5 March 1979

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| primeminister = Ian Smith

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| predecessor = Henry Everard

| successor = Henry Everard

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| office2 = President of the Senate of Rhodesia

| term_start2 = 1970

| term_end2 = 1 November 1978

| predecessor2 = Office established

| successor2 = John Richard Strong{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AFpEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+strong%22 |title = Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa|year = 1978}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|12|30|df=y}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph4_AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Pithey,+Jack+William%22 |title=Who's who of Southern Africa|publisher=Ken Donaldson (Pty.) Limited |date=1979|page=1124 |access-date=2016-02-03}}

| birth_place = Potchefstroom, Transvaal Colony (now North West Province, South Africa)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|11|20|1903|12|30|df=y}}

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| party = Rhodesian Front

| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Wood|1 September 1931}}

| children = 3, including Tony and David

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Jack William Pithey {{Post nominals|country=ZAR|GLM|ICD|CBE}} (30 December 1903{{snd}}20 November 1984{{cite web |title=Zimbabwean Government Gazette Vol. LXIII, No. 11 |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/zw/1985/zw-government-gazette-dated-1985-03-01-no-11.pdf |publisher=Zimbabwean Government}}) was a Rhodesian politician who served as the unrecognised state's Acting President between 1 November 1978 and 5 March 1979.[https://books.google.com/books?id=01ANAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Jack+William+Pithey%22+acting+president Report of the Commission Appointed to Divide Rhodesia into Twenty-three Constituencies, 1978], Hector Norman Macdonald

Govt. printer, 1978, page 1 He was also the President of the Senate of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1978[https://books.google.com/books?id=tH1CAQAAIAAJ&q=%22president:+the+hon%22 Votes and Proceedings of the Senate], Parliament of Rhodesia, 1970[https://books.google.com/books?id=VX5CAQAAIAAJ&q=%22president:+the+hon%22 Votes and Proceedings of the Senate], Parliament of Rhodesia, 1977 having previously been Member of Parliament for the Avondale constituency in north-west Salisbury (now Harare) between 1964 and 1970.