Jacob Albertus Marais was an Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author, politician, Member of Parliament, and leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party from 1977 until his death in 2000.
19 Facts About Jaap Marais
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Jaap Marais's father was sent to Broadbottom Camp at St Helena, while his grandfather was held at Green Point and later paroled due to illness.
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Jaap Marais was one of nine children: six sons, and two daughters, of whom one brother died in infancy.
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Jaap Marais attended a local school with his younger brother Jan Marais matriculated in 1940 at Vryburg Hoerskool.
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Jaap Marais was elected as a Member of Parliament for the ruling National Party in 1958 and served until 1969.
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Jaap Marais considered this measure as a concession under pressure that would result in liberalization and the dismantlement of apartheid.
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Jaap Marais was expelled from the Broederbond shortly after the formation of the HNP was formed, alongside other HNP members or sympathisers.
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Jaap Marais proposed a Volksfront: a coalition of right-wing organisations with the objective of stopping President FW De Klerk from handing over the reins of government to the African National Congress.
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In July 1993, in an open letter, Jaap Marais demanded a whites-only election from President De Klerk.
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Jaap Marais claimed that De Klerk would lose "every by-election in the run-up to a general election," in which De Klerk and the National Party "would be smashed".
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In September 1993 Jaap Marais repeated his request in another open letter.
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Jaap Marais accused Marais of defamation against Bruwer, Hartzenberg and Viljoen, who Buys regarded as "men who sacrifice everything for their People".
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Jaap Marais claimed that it was the British and not the National Party of 1948 who had invented apartheid.
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Jaap Marais became engaged to Marie Rautenbach in 1957, and the two were married on 6 January 1959 in Patensie.
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Jaap Marais was an influential thinker in right-wing Afrikaner nationalist circles from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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Jaap Marais wrote a political biography of Hendrik Verwoerd as well as many political articles and booklets.
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Jaap Marais considered identity, continuity, and freedom as the three key themes of Afrikaner nationalism.
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Jaap Marais emphasized that identity rested on each group's preference for its own.
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Jaap Marais emphasized Afrikaners' freedom struggle against foreign domination by British imperialism in the Anglo Boer War, but against American and Soviet forces during the Cold War as well as the various black ethnic peoples in South Africa.