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The National Party of South Africa

During the First World War many Afrikaners, as the Boers became known, could not accept the concept of fighting on the side of the British against Germany. The British were still regarded by the Boers as the enemy, while Germany had supported the Boer cause. It was in this situation in 1914 that the National Party of South Africa was established by J. B. M. Hertzog in order to rally Afrikaners against the Anglicizing policy of the existing government under Louis Botha and Jan Smuts.

In 1915 South Africa invaded and conquered German South West Africa (SWA). In 1920 SWA was granted to South Africa under a C-class mandate by the League of Nations. After the dissolution of the League of Nations, SWA became the subject of a long drawn out international legal dispute that eventually resulted in the United Nations terminating the mandate in 1971. It was not until 1988, under an accord structured between South Africa, Angola and Cuba that control of SWA-Namibia was handed to the UN.