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United Party Verenigde Party (Afrikaans) | |
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Abbreviation | UP |
Leader | J.B.M. Hertzog J.C. Smuts J.G.N. Strauss De Villiers Graaff |
Founded | 1934 |
Dissolved | 1977 |
Preceded by | National Party South African Party |
Merged into | New Republic Party |
Ideology | Classical Liberalism[1] Conservatism Pro-Commonwealth Constitutional monarchism Coloured people's rights |
Political position | Centre-right |
The United Party was a political party in South Africa. It was the country's ruling political party between 1934 and 1948.