Leaders
- 1915–1934 – J. B. M. Hertzog
- 1934–1953 – D. F. Malan
- 1953–1958 – J. G. Strijdom
- 1958–1966 – H. F. Verwoerd
- 1966–1978 – B. J. Vorster
- 1978–1989 – P. W. Botha
- 1989–1997 – F. W. de Klerk
- 1997–2005 – Marthinus van Schalkwyk (New National Party)
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“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”
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