Herenigde Nasionale Party

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Herenigde Nasionale Party, 'Herenigde' (re-united) National Party, was the name used by Daniel François Malan for the party he used to defeat Jan Smuts in the election of 1948.

Barry Hertzog had joined the National Party to the South African Party in 1934 to form the United Party (South Africa). Malan rejected this and maintained a rump National Party. Hertzog resigned as Prime Minister at the start of World War II and some of his supporters joined the rump National Party, enabling Malan to claim it had been reunited.

Other Hertzog supporters founded the Afrikaner Party, which in 1951 merged with the Herenigde Nasionale Party in what was then called the National Party.

The initials of the Herenigde Nasionale Party, HNP, were later used by another breakaway faction in 1968, the Herstigte Nasionale Party.