National Party

in full National Party of South Africa

South African political party that ruled the country in 1948–94. Its following included most Afrikaners and many English-speaking whites. It was founded in 1914 by J.B.M. Hertzog as the National Party of South Africa and sought to rally Afrikaners against the Anglicizing policies of the government of Louis Botha and Jan Smuts. After winning the 1948 elections, the party enacted a mass of racial legislation, a policy that the party named apartheid. In 1961 it severed ties with the Commonwealth and made South Africa a republic. In the 1990s, under F.W. de Klerk of the National Party, the government began to repeal racially discriminatory laws. The National Party was defeated in South Africa's first universal elections in 1994 but participated in a coalition government with its longtime rival, the African National Congress. With the enactment of a new constitution in 1996, the Nationalists resigned from the government in protest, marking their first time out of government since 1948. In 1998 the party changed its name to the New National Party. After several years of declining popularity, in 2005 the party's federal council voted in favour of disbanding the party. See also P.W. Botha.

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National Party

National Party
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