National Party of South Africa

National Party of South Africa was an Afrikaner dominated white South African nationalist political party that controlled the South African government from 1948 to 1994.

History

Founding

It was founded in 1914 by J.B.M. Hertzog as a result of disagreements between him and the leaders of the South African Party, which he then was a member of.Hanf, Theodore Heribert Weiland Gerda Vierdag South Africa: The Prospects of Peaceful Change Rex Collings page 95 

Cold War

In 1948, its leader Daniel Francois Malan became the Prime Minister of South Africa, and the party began imposing the apartheid within South Africa.Busky, Donald F. Communism in History and Theory: Asia, Africa, and the Americas Praeger Publishers Wesport Connecticut 2002 pages 137-138 However, the apartheid was only one among a variety of issues that helped bring the National Party to power. Most people who voted for the National Party in 1948 were voting more against the previous United Party led by Jan Smuts than for Malan's National Party. 

The reasons are said to be Smuts's support of the United Kingdom in the Second World War and other issues that had irritated Afrikaner voters, such as the poverty of Afrikaners, competition from native Africans for jobs,  urbanization of Afrikaner towns and the threat of communism for which many Afrikaner voters blamed Smuts.Westhuizen, Christi van der White Power and the Rise and Fall of the National Party Zebra Press Cape Town 2007 page 38 

South African President F.W. de Klerk, the last South African government leader to belong to the party, disbanded apartheid in the early 1990s and allowed all adults of all races to vote for the first time in 1994,National Party (NP) (political party, South Africa) - Britannica Online EncyclopediaBbc News which resulted in the National Party being voted out of office.

References

Category:Racism
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Category:Political parties in South Africa
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