biography
| name: |
Malan, Daniel (François)
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pronunciation:
[malan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1959)
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| biography:
| South African statesman and prime minister (1948–54), born in Riebeek West, SW South Africa. He studied at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, and Utrecht University, and in 1905 joined the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church, but left to become editor of Die Burger (1915), the Nationalist newspaper. He became an MP in 1918, and in 1924 held the portfolios of the interior, education, and public health. He broke with Hertzog in 1934, and formed the Purified (Afrikaans Gesuiwerde) National Party. In 1939 Hertzog resigned from the government, and joined Malan in the Reunited (Afrikaans Herenigde) National Party. He was Leader of the Opposition, and in 1948 became premier and minister for external affairs, introducing the controversial apartheid policy. He was a strong believer in a strict white supremacy and a rigidly hierarchical society. |
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