Hertzog, J(ames) B(arry) M(unnik)
- Hertzog, J(ames) B(arry) M(unnik)
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died Nov. 21, 1942, Pretoria, S.Af.
Prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1924–39).
His political principles were "South Africa First" (i.e., ahead of the British Empire) and the "Two Streams Policy," under which British and
Afrikaner would be free from domination by each other. He served in the cabinet of Louis Botha (1910–12), but he broke with Botha because of his nationalist sympathies and formed the
National Party. As prime minister, Hertzog gave South Africa its flag, made
Afrikaans an official language, promoted
apartheid, and affirmed the equality of British and Afrikaner rights. In 1933 he was forced to accept a coalition with Jan Smuts, and
in 1939 he resigned over the issue of neutrality in World War II.
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Universalium.
2010.
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