The Purified National Party ( Afrikaans : Gesuiwerde Nasionale Party ) was a break away from Hertzog's National Party which lasted from 1935 to 1948.
7-840: In 1935 the main portion of the National Party, led by J. B. M. Hertzog , merged with the South African Party of Jan Smuts to form the United Party . A hardline faction of Afrikaner nationalists, led by D. F. Malan , strongly opposed the merger. Malan and 19 other MPs defected to form the Purified National Party, which he led for the next fourteen years in opposition. Their Federale Raad (Federal Council) met in Bloemfontein to work out their own political program on 5 July 1935. In 1939
14-521: The Transvaal . Schreiner originally formed the party to oppose the "personal domination of Mr. Rhodes." Eventually, the Afrikaner Bond would lend their support to form a new government. Initially its main political opposition came from Unionist Party , which supported similar policies, but was more English-speaking and took an instinctively pro-British stance. The SAP would solidify after
21-684: The Party was only formally created in November 1911 in Bloemfontein. It was made up predominantly of Afrikaner parties: The South African Party of the Cape Colony was launched by William Schreiner , the former attorney-general under the leadership of Cecil Rhodes . The party was intended to project a more moderate platform than that of the Afrikaner Bond . This party also advocated more peaceful relations with neighboring states, especially
28-534: The departure of Barry Hertzog and more radical Boer nationalists who formed the National Party . Rising discontent with the economic policies of the SAP during the bad economic times of the early 1920s culminated in a general strike in 1922. Though a combination of military intervention and negotiation ended the strike, the memory of it remained when the government, now a SAP- Unionist coalition government under
35-659: The leadership of Jan Smuts , faced the 1924 South African general election , in which it was defeated by a National - Labour coalition. The SAP remained in opposition with its Unionist allies until the unrest of the Great Depression forced Prime Minister Barry Hertzog of the Nationalists to form a coalition government and on 5 December 1934 a merger which created the United South African National Party (more commonly known as
42-739: The question of South African participation in World War II caused a split in the United Party. Hertzog's Nationalist wing broke away and merged with the Purified National Party to form the Reunited (Herenigde) National Party . This party went on to defeat the United Party in the 1948 general election . This article about a South African political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . South African Party The South African Party ( Afrikaans : Suid-Afrikaanse Party , Dutch : Zuidafrikaanse Partij )
49-454: Was a political party that existed in the Union of South Africa from 1911 to 1934. The outline and foundation for the party was realized after the election of a 'South African party' in the 1910 South African general election under the leadership of Louis Botha . Botha called for a "South African National Party" (SANP) at Pretoria's Opera House on 14 June 1910, prior to the 1910 elections, but
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