Daniel François Malan
| Daniel François Malan | |
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| Prime Minister of South Africa | |
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In office 4 June 1948 – 30 November 1954 |
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| Monarch |
George VI Elizabeth II |
| Governor-General |
Gideon Brand van Zyl Ernest George Jansen |
| Preceded by | Jan Smuts |
| Succeeded by | Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom |
| Minister of the Interior, Education and Public Health | |
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In office 30 June 1924 – 20 May 1933 |
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| Prime Minister | J. B. M. Hertzog |
| Preceded by | Patrick Duncan |
| Succeeded by | Jan Hofmeyr |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 May 1874 Riebeek-Wes, Cape Colony |
| Died | 7 February 1959 (aged 84) Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa |
| Political party | National Party |
| Spouse(s) | Maria |
| Children | Dannie and Hannes |
| Alma mater |
University of Stellenbosch University of Utrecht |
| Profession | Clergyman |
| Religion | Dutch Reformed |
Daniel François Malan (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈdɑːnijəl frɐnˈswɑː mɑːˈlɐn]; 22 May 1874 – 7 February 1959), more commonly known as D. F. Malan, was a South African politician who was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954. He is seen as a champion of Afrikaner nationalism. His National Party government came to power on the program of apartheid and began its comprehensive implementation.
Malan was born in Riebeek-Wes in the Cape Colony. He obtained a B.A. in Music and Science from the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, whereafter he entered the Stellenbosch seminary in order to train as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. Along with his studies in theology, he obtained a M.A. in Philosophy from Victoria College, later to be Paul Roos Gymnasium and the University of Stellenbosch. Malan left South Africa in 1900 to study towards a Doctorate in Divinity at the University of Utrecht, which he obtained in 1905. After his return to South Africa, he was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and served for six months as an assistant-minister in Heidelberg, Transvaal. He was an ardent fighter for the acceptance of Afrikaans, which was an emerging language fighting against Dutch and English, and was a founding member of the Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV – The Afrikaans Language and Cultural Society), which was established in 1930. He was stationed in Montagu from 1906 to 1912 and thereafter in Graaff-Reinet until 1915. He also undertook a journey on behalf of the Dutch Reformed Church, visiting religious Afrikaners living in the Belgian Congo, Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia.
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