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Apr 04, 1889 Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa Died on 06 Dec 1963 (aged 74)
South African journalist and writer
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About Henry Allan Fagan
- Henry Allan Fagan (4 April 1889 – 6 December 1963) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1957 to 1959 and previously a Member of Parliament and the Minister of Native Affairs in J.
- B.
- M.
- Hertzog's government.
- Fagan had been an early supporter of the Afrikaans language movement and a noted Afrikaans playwright and novelist.
- Though he was a significant figure in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and a long-term member of the Broederbond, he later became an important opponent of Hendrik Verwoerd's National Party and is best known for the report of the Fagan Commission, whose relatively liberal approach to racial integration amounted to the Smuts government's last, doomed stand against the policy of apartheid.
