Leaders
- 1915–1934 – J. B. M. Hertzog
- 1934–1953 – D. F. Malan
- 1953–1958 – J. G. Strijdom
- 1958–1966 – H. F. Verwoerd
- 1966–1978 – B. J. Vorster
- 1978–1989 – P. W. Botha
- 1989–1997 – F. W. de Klerk
- 1997–2005 – Marthinus van Schalkwyk (New National Party)
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Famous quotes containing the word leaders:
“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”
—Abba Eban (b. 1915)
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)