Great Depression Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===South Africa=== {{Main|Great Depression in South Africa}} As world trade slumped, demand for South African agricultural and mineral exports fell drastically. The [[Carnegie Commission of Investigation on the Poor White Question in South Africa|Carnegie Commission on Poor Whites]] had concluded in 1931 that nearly one-third of [[Afrikaner]]s lived as paupers. The social discomfort caused by the depression was a contributing factor in the 1933 split between the "gesuiwerde" (purified) and "smelter" (fusionist) factions within the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] and the National Party's subsequent fusion with the [[South African Party]].<ref>Dan O'Meara, ''Volkskapitalisme: class, capital, and ideology in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, 1934β1948'' (Cambridge University Press, 1983).</ref><ref>[https://www.country-studies.com/south-africa/the-great-depression-and-the-1930s.html The Great Depression and the 1930S] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102205937/https://www.country-studies.com/south-africa/the-great-depression-and-the-1930s.html |date=January 2, 2022 }}, Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.</ref> Unemployment programs were begun that focused primarily on the white population.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Minnaar | first1 = Anthony | year = 1994 | title = Unemployment and relief measures during the Great Depression (1929β1934) | journal = Kleio | volume = 26 | issue = 1| pages = 45β85 | doi = 10.1080/00232084.1994.10823193 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page