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At least in conservative society and within the ruling National Party, the scandal was less about the fact of a state propaganda campaign than about the mismanagement of state funds, appropriated without the knowledge of Parliament, and an apparent cover-up by senior government officials and elected representatives.
Flag of National Party of South Africa (1936-1993) The National Party was founded in Bloemfontein in 1914 by Afrikaner nationalists soon after the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Its founding was rooted in disagreements among South African Party politicians, particularly Prime Minister Louis Botha and his first Minister of Justice ...
A campaign video for South Africa’s opposition party showing the country’s flag in flames has stoked tensions just weeks ahead of national elections that are seen as the most pivotal since the ...
General van den Bergh resigned as director-general in 1978 in the wake of the Muldergate scandal, and BOSS was renamed the Department of National Security.In the same year, Vorster was replaced as prime minister by defence minister, P. W. Botha, whose government pursued a protracted restructuring of the intelligence services, culminating in the replacement of the department with the National ...
South Africa’s upcoming elections have been touted as one of the toughest yet for the ruling party, with recent polls suggesting the ANC may receive less than 50% of the national vote for the ...
Selling Apartheid is an in-depth investigation into the Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid and the international propaganda campaign conducted by the apartheid government. Nixon's book contains a large number of previously secret records from archives in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The party was also formed on the principles of the Conservative Party of Andries Treurnicht but with a modern approach.. Afrikaner self-determination is the core policy of the party, but that does not exclude other people of European descent, such as British South Africans, Irish, Portuguese, Greeks, Poles and Italians.
Swart gevaar (Afrikaans for "black danger") was a term used during apartheid in South Africa to refer to the perceived security threat of the majority black African population to the white South African government. [1] [2] It was used by the Herenigde Nasionale Party in the 1948 general election to promote the Sauer Commission's recommendation ...