J. G. Strijdom

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Johannes Gerhardus "Hans" Strijdom (14 July 1893 – 24 August 1958), nicknamed the Lion of Waterberg, was a South African politician who served as the fifth prime minister of South Africa from 1954 until his death in 1958. He was an uncompromising Afrikaner nationalist and a member of the white supremacist baasskap faction of the National Party (NP) who further accentuated the NP's apartheid policies and break with the Union of South Africa in favour of a republic during his rule.

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