1st Cabinet of the Union of South Africa (since the 1909 South Africa Act)
1910–1915
Louis Botha (c. 1919)
Date formed
15 September 1910 (1910-09-15)
Date dissolved
20 October 1915 (1915-10-20)
People and organisations
Monarch
King George V
Governor-General
The Viscount Gladstone (until 1914) The Viscount Buxton
Prime Minister
Louis Botha
Member party
South African Party
Status in legislature
Majority
Opposition party
Unionist Party
Opposition leader
Leander Starr Jameson
History
Election(s)
1910 election
Legislature term(s)
5 years, 1 month and 5 days
Successor
Botha II
(c.1910) Front (left to right): J. W. Sauer, Louis Botha and Abraham Fischer. Back (left to right): J. B. M. Hertzog, Henry Burton, F. R. Moor, C. O'Grady Gubbins, Jan Smuts, H. C. Hull, F. S. Malan and David Graaff.
The Louis Botha government appointed the members of the government in South Africa led by Prime Minister Louis Botha between 31 May 1910 and 3 September 1919.
The former boer general Louis Botha, Prime Minister of Transvaal was appointed by the British crown to become the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa during its formation on 31 May 1910. The first national general elections were held on 15 September 1910 and ended in the victory of the coalition led by the "Het Volk" party led by Louis Botha (67 seats) against the 37 seats won by the Unionists of Leander Starr Jameson. The remaining 26 seats were won by small parties.
The Botha coalition, made up of Anglo-Afrikaner parties, became the South African Party. In Elections of October 1915, the South African Party won 54 seats against 40 for Unionists 27 seats in the National Party, 4 seats to the Labour Party of South Africa and six seats distributed among small groups.
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