Afrikaner Nationalistic Politics
J. B. M. Hertzog led the National Party to the 1915 and 1920 elections under the slogan "South Africa first" in order to create a South Africa independent from the British influence. In the 1924 elections he defeated the South African Party led by Jan Smuts, after Smuts had used force to end the Rand Revolt of white miners in 1922, and stayed in power for 15 years in a coalition government with the Labour Party. During his reign, he steadily promoted Afrikaner nationalism while deepening the racial segregation in the country.
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