Fusion Government Organisation
Becomes deputy leader within the new fusion organization.
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1934 in South Africa
Explore 28 historical events and records for South Africa in 1934.
Historical records for South Africa in 1934
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December
National and South African Parties Merge
Combines Hertzog's National Party faction with Smuts's South African Party.
United Party Formation
Helps create the United Party through political fusion.
United Party Formation
Helps establish the United Party with Hertzog.
Other events (month unknown)
Anti-Fusion Nationalist Opposition
Builds the Purified National Party as an Afrikaner opposition movement.
Clarkebury Boarding Institute
Begins studies at Clarkebury Boarding Institute.
Government
Forms the Fusion Government
Law Studies at Bloemfontein
Enters student politics while studying in Bloemfontein.
Law Studies at Stellenbosch
Vorster studied law at Stellenbosch University, where he became involved in Afrikaner political and cultural circles.
Member of Parliament
Elected MP
Opposition to Party Fusion
Rebuilds National Party organization in the Transvaal.
Party Leader
Appointed Party Leader of the Purified National Party
Party Leader
Appointed Party Leader of the Purified National Party, joint leader with Malan
Pirow Introduces Union Status Legislation
Minister Oswald Pirow introduced legislation that became the Status of the Union Act and clarified South Africa's constitutional autonomy.
PNP
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
PNP
Helps Malan form the Purified National Party
Purified National Party Established
Leads nationalists rejecting fusion with the United Party.
Purified Nationalist Alignment
Supports Malan's anti-fusion nationalist movement.
Status Of Union Act Affirms Sovereignty
Under Hertzog's government the Status of the Union Act declared the constitutional independence of the Union within the Commonwealth.
Thembu Initiation
Undergoes traditional initiation into manhood.
Transvaal Nationalist Reorganisation
Refuses to join the new United Party coalition.
Transvaal Opposition to Fusion
Organizes Transvaal supporters outside the United Party.
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).
United Party
Hertzog agrees to merge his National Party with the rival South Africa Party of Jan Smuts to form the United Party.
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.
United 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)
United 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
University Studies
Begins law studies at the University of the Orange Free State.
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