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Basic Outline Notes: Pact Government – The six aims and how Hertzog achieved them Background: Pact consisted of two parties’, the Labour Party ruled by Creswell and the National Party (NP) ruled by Hertzog. Hertzog and the NP was the senior member in Pact. Pact gained support from the Afrikaner farmers, small white business owners, Afrikaner intellectuals and working class Afrikaners. Pact was strongly opposed to Smuts and the SAP, who looked after the mine owners, and supported British Imperialism. Pact rather looked after the white worker, who was the majority of the voting population. The main reason why pact won the 1924 election was because of their wide white worker support.
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