Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Afrikaner Party's roots can be traced back to September 1939, when South Africa declared war on Germany shortly after the start of World War II.The then Prime Minister J.B.M. Hertzog and his followers did not agree with this move and broke away from the United Party to form the Volksparty (People's Party).
Logo of the National Party during the 1990s Share of National Party votes in 1994. The areas which voted for the National Party were largely Afrikaans- or English speaking Flag of the National Party during the 1990s. The National Party won 20.39% of the vote and 82 seats in the National Assembly at the first multiracial election in 1994.
The Afrikaner nationalist intelligentsia, along with the National Party and the Broederbond, ended up formulating a radical nationalistic policy which rejected British hegemony in economics and politics as well as ethnic mengelmoes ("mess") induced by the transportation of black migrant workers around the country. They proposed as a solution ...
In 1914, the National Party was founded to promote Afrikaner interests. [8] It gained power by winning South Africa's 1948 general elections. [20] The party was noted for implementing a harsh policy of racial segregation and declaring South Africa a republic in 1961. [8]
Afrikaner Party Afrikaans: Afrikanerparty: AP 1941 1951 Afrikaner nationalism Conservatism: Dominion Party Afrikaans: Dominiumparty: DP 1934 1948 Conservatism Monarchism: Herenigde Nasionale Party English: Reunited National Party: HNP 1940 1948 Afrikaner nationalism Social conservatism: Labour Party Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidersparty: LP ...
The 1948 general election brought to power the Afrikaner nationalist National Party, which would not be voted out for the next 46 years. The party had campaigned on a platform of apartheid, an explicit policy of institutionalised racial segregation.
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election resulted in Nelson Mandela being elected as President of South Africa .
Afrikaner Party; Afrikaner Self-determination Party; ... National Party of South West Africa; National Party South Africa (2008) O. Orania; Orania Representative Council;