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Malan, Daniel François (dänyĕl` fräNswä` məlän`), 1874–1959, South African political leader. A minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, he left the pulpit after the outbreak of World War I to become editor of an Afrikaner nationalist paper. Rising to prominence in the National party in Cape Province Cape Province, former province, S South Africa. Under the South African constitution of 1994 it was divided into Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, and part of a fourth province, North West.
..... Click the link for more information. , he was elected to parliament in 1918. He served (1924–33) as minister of the interior, public health, and education in the cabinet of J. B. M. Hertzog Hertzog, James Barry Munnik (hûrt`sŏg, hĕrt`sôkh), 1866–1942, South African military and political leader.
..... Click the link for more information. . After World War II, Malan's National party and the small Afrikaner party, campaigning on the issue of white supremacy, came (1948) to power with Malan as prime minister. His government initiated the racial separation laws known as apartheid apartheid (əpärt`hīt) [Afrik.
..... Click the link for more information. . He retired as prime minister in 1954.