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| 1932–40 |
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| Abandonment of the gold standard led to a steep rise in the price of gold and to a boom in secondary industry, vastly increasing urbanization and labor migration. | 1 |
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| 1933 |
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| Fusion of Smuts's SAP and Hertzog's Nationalists gave electoral victory; D. F. Malan led Afrikaner republicans into the Purified Nationalist Party. | 2 |
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| 1935 |
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| In emulation of Nazi Brown Shirts, Grey Shirts emerged in South Africa. | 3 |
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| Dec |
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| All-African Convention of black organizations met in Bloemfontein to oppose Native Bills, especially the withdrawal of the Cape franchise. | 4 |
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