# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-gerhardus-strijdom
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:58:17.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-gerhardus-strijdom"
name: "Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom"
slug: "johannes-gerhardus-strijdom"
description: "Johannes Gerhardus \"Hans\" Strijdom, nicknamed the Lion of the North and the Lion of Waterberg, was a South African politician who served as the fifth prime minister of South Africa from 1954 until his death in 1958. He was an uncompromising Afrikaner nationalist and a member of the white supremacist baasskap faction of the National Party (NP) who further accentuated the NP's apartheid policies and break with the Union of South Africa in favour of a republic during his rule."
tagline: "Former Prime Minister of South Africa (1893–1958)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1893-07-14"
deathDate: "1958-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump