History glossary
National Party
the South African party that won power in 1948 and made apartheid official policy.
- Category
- Political party
- Region
- South Africa
- Date range
- 1914-1997
What it means
The National Party was an Afrikaner nationalist party that won South Africa's white-only election in 1948. Under D. F. Malan and later leaders, it turned segregation into the more systematic state programme known as apartheid.
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