Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… and K, Rood (Vereeniging), who was revealed to be one after 4 September, were absent from tin Assembly, as was … The Speaker, Dr E. G Jansen (Vryheid), did not take part in the vote. In terms of numbers, there were two main … by Smuts supporters at the nomination stage in 1938 (in one case initially before a by-election in 1936) of eight …