Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… in the Cape would have the role of deciding the victor in elections. Two years later, in 1956 the government enlarged … in extending NP reach in the province, and in the 1938 elections, 70,000 people voted for the NP which, although … double the 30,000 that supported the party in provincial elections in 1936. He drew Afrikaner voters away from the …