Seasonal party
The Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) ( English : Reconstituted National Party ) is a political party in South Africa .
The HNP was founded in 1969 by the NP Parliament members Albert Hertzog, Willie T. Marais, Louis Frans Stofberg and Jacob Albertus Marais, as well as other dissatisfied conservatives in the sphere of influence of the South African National Party . On October 24, 1969, there was a mass demonstration of politically dissatisfied Boers in Pretoria , at which the founding of a new party was announced. The following day, 1,023 delegates from around 120 constituencies met for the founding party conference. Those present elected Albert Hertzog as chairman and Jaap Marais as his deputy. In the founding political ideas, the statement that the national unity of the country can only be achieved with Africanism at the core of any political program took a central position. As a result, Afrikaans should be the only national language. English-speaking whites would therefore still be “Africans in development”. Any international influences in favor of a "racial" integration should be resisted. Programmatically, maintaining separate identities among “whites” and “non-whites” has been given top priority. The non-European population should not be given any hope of social equality with the European-born part of South Africans.
The party represents Boer- national objectives and advocates extensive spatial and social separation of the various ethnic groups in South Africa. Critics believe that the HNP is racist and right-wing extremists and supports the reintroduction of apartheid .
The party issues its own publication with the title "Die Afrikaner".
Web links
- Internet presence of the Herstigte Nasionale Party ( Memento from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Newspaper Die Afrikaner on www.dieafrikaner.co.za (PDF, 1.1 MB) ( Memento from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )