Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
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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.
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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.
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