Vryburg was a constituency in the Cape Province of South Africa, which existed from 1938 to 1994. It covered a rural area of the Northern Cape centred on the town of Vryburg. Throughout its existence it elected one member to the House of Assembly...
Bechuanaland (Afrikaans: Betsjoeanaland) was a constituency in the Cape Province of South Africa, which existed from 1910 to 1938. It covered a rural area along the border with Botswana, centred on the town of Vryburg, and shared both its name and...
Delarey was a constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed from 1924 to 1943. It covered a rural area in the western Transvaal, centred on the town of Delareyville. Throughout its existence it elected one member to the House...
Thandi Ruth Modise (born 25 December 1959) is a South African politician who served as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans from 2021 to 2024. She was previously the Premier of the North West from 2010 to 2014, Chairperson of the National...
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 September 1989, the last under apartheid. Snap elections had been called early (no election was required until 1992) by the recently elected head of the National Party (NP), F. W. de Klerk, who was in...
General elections were held in South Africa on 18 October 1961. They were the first general elections after South Africa became a republic following the 1960 South African referendum. The National Party (NP) under H. F. Verwoerd won a majority in...
A referendum on becoming a republic was held in South Africa on 5 October 1960. The Afrikaner-dominated right-wing National Party, which had come to power in 1948, was avowedly republican and regarded the position of Queen Elizabeth II as the South...
Jacob Albertus Marais (2 November 1922 – 8 August 2000) was an Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author, politician, Member of Parliament, and leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) from 1977 until his death in 2000.
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 May 1987. The State of Emergency cast a cloud over the elections, which were again won by the National Party (NP) under the leadership of P. W. Botha, although for the first time it faced serious...
Johannes Hendrikus Viljoen (15 October 1893 – 5 December 1957) was a South African politician, member of parliament for the constituencies of Hoopstad (1933–1941) and Vryburg (1948–1957), Minister of Mines (1950–1953), Education, Arts and Sciences...
