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Heads of Government

Leadership during the rise and fall of apartheid:

South African History in the 20th Century was dominated by the rise and fall of apartheid, a form of government based on racial classification that placed power and privilege in the hands of a small minority of people of European decent and disenfranchised the large majority of the nation’s population who are of African decent.

The bitterness of two Anglo-Boer wars, fought between the British and Afrikaners (White South Africans primarily of Dutch decent) provided soil within which the Afrikaner nationalist ideology of apartheid could grow. In the tussle between Afrikaner and English South Africans, it was ultimately, South Africans of colour who lost out.

The men who oversaw the rise and fall of apartheid were the nation’s heads of government. In 1910 the two former Afrikaner colonies of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State were united with the two British governed colonies, the Cape and Natal to form the Union of South Africa under the British Crown. From this time, the South African government was led by a Prime Minister.

Although they were Afrikaners, the early Prime Ministers, Botha and Smuts took a reconciliatory stance between Afrikaner and English South Africans. Under Hertzog, privileges for working class Whites were entrenched and Blacks were further disenfranchised.

Apartheid, however, only became official government policy under the leader of the Afrikaner Nationalist Party, Prime Minister DF Malan who came to power in 1948. His successors built on this policy of segregation. HF Verwoerd in particular introduced what came to be known as “Grand Apartheid” the separation of races on a macro scale. People of African decent were not allowed to own or rent land outside of small pockets of land known as “homelands.” The enactment of the scheme saw the mass relocation of Black people to these homelands.

In 1961 South Africa became a Republic. Prime Ministers continued to head up the government of the Republic of South Africa until 1984 when a new constitution was implemented and the State President became head of state.

FW de Klerk was the last President of South Africa where the system of apartheid was official policy. Pressure from the liberation movements, civil disobedience within the country, economic sanctions from the international community and condemnation by the religious community as well as pressure from the South African business community had rendered the system untenable. In 1993 De Klerk and African National Congress President, Nelson Mandela, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts to bring an end to apartheid.

Apartheid was officially ended on April 27, 1994 when Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected President of South Africa. In line with the Freedom Charter, Mandela called all South Africans to a common goal of a South Africa for all who live in it. Mandela even paid a courtesy visit to Hendrik Verwoerd’s widow in 1995 as part of his efforts in reconciliation.

Louis Botha: 1910-1919
Jan Christiaan Smuts: 1920-1924 and 1939-1948
James Barry Munnik Hertzog: 1924-1939
Daniel François Malan: 1948-1954
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom: 1954-1958
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd: 1958-1966
Balthazar Johannes Vorster: 1966-1978
Pieter Willem Botha: 1978-1989
FW de Klerk: 1989-1994
Nelson Mandela: 1994-1999

Below are images of the Heads of Government in South Africa which are available for licensing.

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    Image Number: APN164252
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: Dr. H.F. Verwoerd 1954-07-02
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 4186 x 5474
    Media Id: 12_15
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: vertical, black and white image, portraits, government ministers, politicians, Nationalist Party, South Africa, July, 1954, Dr. H.F. Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, HF Verwoerd, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

    X
    Image Number: APN164306
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: Dr. D.F. Malan at Libertas 1953-05-09
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Libertas, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 4313 x 5347
    Media Id: 12_5
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: vertical, black and white image, portraits, government ministers, politicians, Nationalist Party, South Africa, Dr D F Malan, 1953, May, prime ministers, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

    X
    Image Number: APN267504
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: Gen. Louis Botha
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3620 x 5405
    Media Id: 350_11
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

    X
    Image Number: APN164361
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: Mnr. P.W. Botha 1968-11-13 Official Photo
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: 00:00:00
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 4219 x 5380
    Media Id: 12_67
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: vertical, black and white image, portraits, government ministers, politicians, Nationalist Party, South Africa, PW Botha, P.W. Botha, 1968, November, prime ministers, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

    X
    Image Number: APN164328
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: General J.B.M. Hertzog 1961-01-04
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3883 x 5451
    Media Id: 12_36
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: vertical, black and white image, portraits, government ministers, politicians, National Party, South Africa, 1961, January, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

    X
    Image Number: APN164331
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: J.G. Strydom 1963-01-06
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 4304 x 5450
    Media Id: 12_20
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: vertical, black and white image, portraits, government ministers, politicians, Nationalist Party, South Africa, J.G. Strydom, 1963, January, prime ministers, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN18038
    Title: President Nelson Mandela in office
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Paul Weinberg
    Description: PW0075, South Africa, Johannesburg, 1994: Nelson Mandela interviewed in his office. ANC - African National Congress, goverment, political, famous people, public figures.. Photograph: Paul Weinberg/ South Photographs
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Paul Weinberg
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3565 x 5467
    Media Id: 99_1035
    Credit: Paul Weinberg / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, Gauteng, Johannesburg, President, Nelson Mandela, offices, 1996, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN164316
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: Genl. J.C. Smuts
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: 00:00:00
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3980 x 5545
    Media Id: 12_145
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: vertical, black and white image, portraits, three quarters view, General Smuts, Jan Smuts, army uniforms, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN274066
    Title: Personalities
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / David Goldblatt
    Description: FW de Klerk was leader of the National Party in the Transvaal from 1982 and in 1988 became Minister of Education in the apartheid goverment. The following year he became the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: David Goldblatt
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Cape Town
    Pixel Size: 4493 x 4595
    Media Id: 495_32
    Credit: David Goldblatt / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN267067
    Title: South African Prime Ministers
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Martin Gibbs Collection
    Description: B.J. Vorster
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Martin Gibbs
    Country: South Africa
    Location: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 4097 x 5303
    Media Id: 346_7
    Credit: Martin Gibbs / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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