HNP, noun1

/eɪtʃ en ˈpiː//hɑː en ˈpɪə/
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AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, abbreviation formed on Herenigde Nasionale Party, ‘Reunited National Party’.
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Herenigde (Nationalist) Party, see Herenigde. Also attributive.
1943 Star 3 Aug. 4The much publicised struggle of the H.N.P. is either a holy war or an unholy fraud.
1948 George & Knysna Herald 21 May 1The two candidates are Prof. M.C. Botha, United Party, and Mr. P.W. Botha, H.N.P.
1949 Blueprint for Blackout (Educ. League) (pamphlet) 28On the war issue in 1939 General Hertzog and his followers disagreed with General Smuts, and reunited with Dr. Malan; the party became the Reunited Nationalist Party (H.N.P.)...Dr. Malan: H.N.P. leader, and Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
1958 G. Carter Politics of Inequality 33The pressure for unity was sufficient to result in an agreement between the two parliamentary parties in January 1940, and even into efforts to recast their organisation into a single body called Die Herenigde Nasionale of Volksparty (the Reunited National Party) and commonly known as the H.N.P.
1958 G. Carter Politics of Inequality 35The election was equally significant for the H.N.P. In the first place, it decisively annihilated its rivals: the H.N.P. won 43 seats in place of its former 40: neither the Afrikaner Party nor the members of the New Order won a single seat.
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 361The flame of Afrikaner nationalism..finally triumphed on 28 May 1948 when the Reunified National Pary (HNP; NP in 1951) took power.
Herenigde (Nationalist) Party, see Herenigde. Also attributive.
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