South Africa in World War II in the context of "Herenigde Nasionale Party"

The Herenigde Nasionale Party (English: Reunited National Party; HNP) was an Afrikaner nationalist and conservative political party in South Africa. It was founded in 1940 from the merger of the Purified National Party (Gesuiwerde Nasionale Party, GNP) led by future prime minister D. F. Malan and a faction of the United Party (UP) led by J. B. M. Hertzog, who split from the party and resigned as prime minister of South Africa in opposition to the country's support for the Allies during World War II. The HNP won a plurality of seats at the 1948 general election despite losing the popular vote to the UP and formed a coalition government with the Afrikaner Party (AP), which it merged with to form the National Party (NP) in 1951; the NP name had previously been used by the party Hertzog merged into the UP.