5 December 1934Fusion Government OrganisationJan Christian Smuts
Becomes deputy leader within the new fusion organization.
Historical records for South Africa in 1934, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Becomes deputy leader within the new fusion organization.
Combines Hertzog's National Party faction with Smuts's South African Party.
Helps create the United Party through political fusion.
Helps establish the United Party with Hertzog.
Builds the Purified National Party as an Afrikaner opposition movement.
Begins studies at Clarkebury Boarding Institute.
Forms the Fusion Government
Enters student politics while studying in Bloemfontein.
Elected MP
Rebuilds National Party organization in the Transvaal.
Appointed Party Leader of the Purified National Party
Appointed Party Leader of the Purified National Party, joint leader with Malan
The PNP becomes the official opposition to the Hertzog-Smuts coalition. Refuses to support the amalgamation of the National Party & the South African Party. Founds the Purified Nationalist Party
Helps Malan form the Purified National Party
Leads nationalists rejecting fusion with the United Party.
Supports Malan's anti-fusion nationalist movement.
Undergoes traditional initiation into manhood.
Refuses to join the new United Party coalition.
Organizes Transvaal supporters outside the United Party.
A hardline faction of Afrikaner nationalists, led by Malan, refuses to accept the merger and maintains a rump National Party called the Gesuiwerde Nasionale Party (Purified National Party).
Hertzog agrees to merge his National Party with the rival South Africa Party of Jan Smuts to form the United Party.
James Hertzog was formed by a merger of most of Prime Minister Barry Hertzogs National Party with the rival South Africa Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist Party.
A hardline faction of Afrikaner nationalists, led by Malan, refuses to accept the merger and maintaines a rump National Party called the Gesuiwerde Nasionale Party (Purified National Party)
Formed by a merger of most of Prime Minister Barry Hertzogs National Party with the rival South Africa Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist Party
Begins law studies at the University of the Orange Free State.
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