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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).
In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, the National Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring White people known as apartheid, meaning "separateness". These laws allowed for the systematic persecution of opposition leaders and attempted to enforce general white supremacy by classifying all South ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice, this assassin. The cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani has sent shock waves throughout the country and ...
Afrikaans (noun: name of language, from "african") derivative: Afrikaner (person who speaks Afrikaans as their native tongue), plural: Afrikaners; apartheid (literally "apart-ness"): also the name of a period of segregation in the country during 1948–1994; bergwind (warm dry wind blowing from the plateau to the coast)
This Afrikaner-focused political party has representation in the national Parliament as well as several Provincial legislatures in South Africa. Support for this party however decreased to just under 140,000 votes, being less than 1% of the total votes cast (approximately 20% among registered Afrikaner voters) by the 2004 national elections.