Background
James Barry Munnik Hertzog was born on 6 April 1866 in Wellington, Cape Colony. He was a descendant of German immigrants.
(Cases decided in the High court of the South African repu...)
Cases decided in the High court of the South African republic during the year 1893 (1903). This book, "Cases decided in the High court of the South African republic during the year 1893", by James Barry Munnik Hertzog, John Woodford S. Leonard, is a replication of a book originally published before 1903. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/5518452578/?tag=2022091-20
James Barry Munnik Hertzog was born on 6 April 1866 in Wellington, Cape Colony. He was a descendant of German immigrants.
He was educated in law at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, and Amsterdam University.
At the time, an Afrikaner leader was judged mainly by his attitudes to the British connection, the relations between the Afrikaners and the English minority, and inevitably the race problem.
For Hertzog, the destiny of the Afrikaner was defined in terms of "a severe and sustained struggle for dominance in South Africa. "
Where Botha cooperated with Britain, conciliated the English minority, and treated the Africans with paternalistic benevolence, Hertzog preferred a different political style.
It formed an alliance with the mainly English-speaking Labour party after the Rand disturbances in 1922.
The alliance emerged victorious from the 1924 elections.
Two years later he was in London, pressing the Imperial Conference for clarification of the status of members of the British Commonwealth.
Hertzog's attitude to the African was rooted in the long history of conflict between black and white and in the Afrikaner's fear of miscegenation.
Urgency was given to it by his fear of an African-English alliance against the Afrikaner.
In the Cape, where the Africans had the vote, they used it against Afrikaner nationalism.
One of the three British columns which had harassed Hertzog's armies in the Free State had been African.
The first Nationalist-Labour Cabinet had fallen (1928) because the English-speaking labor minister had met a black delegation from Clements Kadalie's Industrial and Commercial Workers Union.
Hertzog's government introduced the bans to isolate and silence political dissent, removed the Africans from the common voters' roll in the Cape, and passed legislation upholding the industrial color bar.
His successors were to build on these foundations to cast apartheid in its present form.
The depression forced Hertzog to form a coalition government with General Jan C. Smuts, who led the South African party.
The coalition developed into the United party (1934).
The clouds of war were rising in Europe.
Hertzog advocated a policy of neutrality.
With this in mind he tabled a neutrality motion in Parliament on September 4, 1939, which was rejected by 80 votes to 67.
Hertzog died on November 21, 1942, at the age of 76.
(Cases decided in the High court of the South African repu...)
Two years later, in 1914, Hertzog organized the National Party and demanded the complete independence of South Africa.
In 1934 Hertzog fused his National Party with Smuts' party, creating the United Party.
The remnants of his followers formed the Afrikaner party and persuaded Hertzog to lead it.
Quotations:
Angered by Boer demands for the equal treatment of the English and Dutch languages, Lord Milner, the British administrator, shouted: "I want only one official language in South Africa!"
Hertzog's retort was "So do I!"
He adopted this attitude, he told the Imperial Conference in 1937, "because England continues to associate itself with France in a policy with reference to East and Central Europe which is calculated to endanger Germany's existence or which refuses to eliminate any injustice flowing from the Treaty of Versailles. "
He was married to Wilhelmina Neethling wit whom he had three children.