Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Naspers, linked to Willie Hofmeyr, Sanlam and the Cape NP, would go on to publish Die Burger, Het Volksblad, and … Hertzog. [9] The paper supported the fusion government in 1934, the coalition between the NP and the South African … after Jan Smuts’s South Africa Party lost the election. In 1934 the NP and Smuts’s SAP formed the ‘fusion’ government. …