Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈalbərt ˈɦærtsɔχ]; 4 July 1899 – 5 November 1982) was a South African politician, Afrikaner nationalist, cabinet minister, and founding leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party.

The HNP was opposed to what it viewed as the National Party's deviation from its founding principles under Hendrik Verwoerd's successor, John Vorster.

[3] After the town was taken by British troops, and their house blown up by dynamite, the family was herded onto cattle trucks and taken to the concentration camp at Port Elizabeth.

[5] Mynie Neethling was visited by Lord Kitchener personally in the Port Elizabeth camp, where he offered her dismissal should she try and persuade her husband to lay down his arms.

That move seemed baffling to some, because the Calvinist and Boer patriot General Hertzog was a staunch proponent of Afrikaans language rights, especially in education.

Although only eleven years old, he left on the afternoon of his first day, and enrolled at Pretoria Boys High School.

He served as member of the House of Assembly under the tenure of Prime Ministers Malan and Hannes Strijdom.

During his time as minister of Posts and Telegrams, he disallowed the introduction of television in South Africa, calling it a "small bioscope".

The purpose conscious Afrikaner recognizes and appreciates the tradition, and yet he is the man of today and with a vision on tomorrow, until eternity.

At the same time the Afrikaner culture is young and virile, and is still busy to form itself on many levels, without having to cut ties with the past.

He is creative in his ability to sow distrust; hardened in the handling of one-sided slogans to generate witch hunts everywhere; accomplished in the technique of quibbling.

Differences that had existed for a number of years began to manifest publicly, especially in the early days of new premier John Vorster's term.

In a press interview in 1979 he opined as follows: "In my view our political landscape is developing in the direction of a large, new conservative party which will consist of different people who are still currently trying to tread their own path.

He was then laid to rest in the family cemetery on the farm Waterval, in the district of Witbank, next to his wife Katie, and close to his parents.

[26] Hertzog met Katherine Marjorie Whiteley, a South African born English girl in Oxford in 1926.

Hertzog met the widow Martha Maria ("Martie") Viljoen (born Duvenage) in 1973, and married her in October 1977.

[28] Hertzog's house in Waterkloof was referred to as "An Alladin's cave of historic memories" by the Pretoria News.

[30] He served as the Honorary President of the South African Aloe and Succulent Society for a number of years, until he resigned in 1972.

[32] Hertzog referred to television as “the evil box" because he regarded the new media as a negative influence on society throughout the world.