Henry Allan Fagan (4 April 1889 to 6 December 1963) was a South African Chief Justice, writer and politician who served as the eleventh Chief Justice of South Africa from 1957 to 1959. He had earlier served as a Member of Parliament and as Minister of Native Affairs under J. B. M. Hertzog's government, and was an early supporter of the Afrikaans language movement and an accomplished Afrikaans playwright and novelist. Although a long-time member of the Broederbond who played a significant role in Afrikaner nationalism, he later opposed Hendrik Verwoerd's National Party and is best known for heading the Fagan Commission, whose report recommended a more liberal approach to racial integration.
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Henry Allan Fagan, QC 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.
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