Albert Hertzog
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Doctor of Law Albert Hertzog |
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| Leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party |
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In office 25 October 1969 – 28 May 1977 |
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| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Jaap Marais |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 24 August 1954 – 24 August 1958 |
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| Governor General | Ernest George Jansen |
| Prime Minister | Hendrik Verwoerd |
| Preceded by | Michiel Daniel Christiaan de Wet Nel |
| Succeeded by | Carel de Wet |
| Minister of Post and Telecommunications | |
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In office 24 August 1958 – 7 February 1968 |
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| President |
Charles Robberts Swart Jozua François Naudé (acting) |
| Governor General | Charles Robberts Swart |
| Prime Minister |
Hendrik Verwoerd B.J. Vorster |
| Preceded by | Jan Serfontein |
| Succeeded by | Matthys van Rensburg |
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| Born | 4 July 1899 Bloemfontein, Republic of the Orange Free State |
| Died | 5 November 1982 (aged 83) Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa |
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National Party until 1969 Herstigte Nasionale Party 1969–1982 |
| Spouse(s) | Katie (née Whitely)† Martie Duvenage (née Viljoen) |
| Residence | Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa |
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Stellenbosch University B.A. (cum laude) University of Amsterdam Oxford University LL.B. Leiden University LL.D. |
| Profession |
Barrister Cabinet Minister Politician |
| Religion | Calvinism |
Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈalbərt ˈɦærtsɔχ]; 4 July 1899, Bloemfontein – 5 November 1982, Pretoria) was an Afrikaner politician, cabinet minister, and founding leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party. He served as the South African Minister of Health from 1954 to 1958 and as Minister of Post and Telecommunications from 1958 to 1968. As the latter, Hertzog is famous for his refusal of implementing television service in South Africa. In 1969, after being purged from the National Party for his reactionary and exclusive Afrikaner Nationalist views, Hertzog founded the Herstigte Nasionale Party ("Reconstituted National Party"). The HNP was opposed to what it viewed as the National Party's deviation from its founding principles under Hendrik Verwoerd's successor, John Vorster.
The son of famed Boer general and later South African Prime Minister Barry Hertzog and his wife Mynie (born Neethling), Albert Hertzog was born on 4 July 1899 in his parental home, 19 Goddard Street, Bloemfontein. He was baptized on 31 August 1899 in the Moederkerk. Albert had two younger brothers, Charles Dirk Neethling (born in 1904) and James Barry Munnik (born 1905).
Hertzog was only three months old when the Second Boer War broke out. Initially he stayed with his mother at their home in Bloemfontein, but after four months moved in with her sister in the hamlet of Jagersfontein. After the town was taken by British troops, and their house blown up by dynamite, the family was hoarded onto cattle trucks and taken to the concentration camp at Port Elizabeth. The Hertzog inmates in the camp included baby Albert, his mother Mynie, his paternal grandmother and a number of Albert's aunts and cousins. They lived in a thin shack of 8 square meters. Albert's seven-year-old cousin, Charles, died of measles only twelve days after arrival. Albert himself nearly succumbed to the disease, and was sent to relatives in Stellenbosch for care and treatment. He stayed in Stellenbosch in the house of his paternal grandfather, Charl Neethling, until the end of the war. Mynie Neethling was visited by Lord Kitchener personally in the Port Elizabeth camp, where he offered her dismissal should she try and persuade her husband to lay down his arms. She refused, and was subsequently sent via ship to the Merebank camp at Durban.Merebank was notorious as one of the camps with the highest fatality rates. After her internment, Mynie Hertzog was partial to illness for the rest of her life.
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