Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Style guide/Government/Cabinet

People and organisations
Head of government	Prime Minister Hans Strydom
Head of government's history	Prime Minister D.F. Malan ; (resigned in 1954)

During their first term in office, the article must be named Cabinet of <name here> followed by their abbreviated or full name, depending on what is most commonly used. If elected for a second term in office, you must move and redirect the original article to a page titled First Cabinet of <name here> and the new cabinet must be labelled Second Cabinet of <name here>.

Many of the politicians between 1910-1994 were listed using their initials and surname. Some of their individual articles are titled using their full name, but for the cabinet table listing it must match the naming conventions of the time. We follow the style laid out by Wikipedia Manual of Style, which states "an initial is followed by a full stop (period) and a space (e.g. J. R. R. Tolkien)". While this convention must apply to the article title (e.g. First Cabinet of J. B. M. Hertzog), you can leave out the space when displaying the names in the article itself.

Lead edit

The lead section must mention and link to the respective general election, then summarise the key points about the cabinet.

The article must start with the {{Infobox government cabinet}}, please use the complete template and do not alter it (e.g. like deleting unused tags) as it may be used in future.

History edit

What was the political climate during the lead up and term of this cabinet.

Death or Resignation edit

This section is exclusive to the head of government or head of state, the ministers and their deputies have the Shuffle section. A cabinet is defined by the elected head of government during the respective general election. If the head of government dies or resigns during their term in office, the name of the cabinet does not change. So for example, during D.F. Malan's Second Term he resigned as Prime Minister and his successor was elected by Parliament - not in a general election. In that example you would briefly elaborate on the events surrounding the resignation (in this section) and note it in the {{Infobox government cabinet}}, as follows:

{{Infobox government cabinet
| government_head         = [[Prime Minister]] [[Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom|Hans Strydom]]
| government_head_history = [[Prime Minister]] [[Daniel_François_Malan|D.F. Malan]] <br/> {{small|(resigned in 1954)}}
}}

Shuffle edit

This section must describe each cabinet shuffle, which is defined as the death, resignation, dismissal or moving of a minister to a different department.

Cabinet of Ministers edit

Standard edit

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" | Post
! Minister
! colspan="2" | Term
! Party
|-
| style="width: 1px; background: {{party color|National_Party_(South_Africa)}};" |
| align="left" | '''[[Prime Minister of South Africa|Prime Minister]]'''
| align="left" | [[Image:JG Strijdom.jpg|60px]] '''[[Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom|Hans Strydom]]'''
| 1954
| -
| [[National_Party_(South_Africa)|NP]]
|-
| style="width: 1px; background: {{party color|National_Party_(South_Africa)}};" |
| align="left" | '''[[Minister of Agriculture (South Africa)|Minister of Agriculture]]'''
| align="left" | [[Image:SP_le_Roux.jpg|60px]] '''<small>The Hon.</small> [[Stephanus Petrus le Roux|S.P. le Roux]] <small>MP</small>'''
| 1948
| 1958
| [[National_Party_(South_Africa)|NP]]
|-
|}

As it appears in a browser:

Post		Minister	Term		Party
	Prime Minister	Hans Strydom	1954	-	NP
	Minister of Agriculture	The Hon. S.P. le Roux MP	1948	1958	NP

Shuffle edit

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" | Post
! Minister
! colspan="2" | Term
! Party
|-
| style="width: 1px; background: {{party color|National_Party_(South_Africa)}};" |
| rowspan="3" align="left" | '''[[Minister of Health (South Africa)|Minister Health]]'''
| align="left" | [[Image:JHViljoen.JPG|60px]] '''<small>The Hon.</small> [[Johannes Hendrikus Viljoen|J.H. Viljoen]] <small>MP</small>'''
| 1956
| 1957
| [[National_Party_(South_Africa)|NP]]
|- style="opacity:.3;"
| style="width: 1px; background: {{party color|National_Party_(South_Africa)}};" |
| style="padding-left:70px" align="left" | '''<small>The Hon.</small> [[Jozua_François_Naudé|Tom Naudé]] <small>MP</small>'''
| 1954
| 1956
| [[National_Party_(South_Africa)|NP]]
|- style="opacity:.3;"
| style="width: 1px; background: {{party color|National_Party_(South_Africa)}};" |
| style="padding-left:70px" align="left" | '''<small>The Hon.</small> [[Albertus_Johannes_Roux_van_Rhijn|A.J.R. van Rhijn]] <small>MP</small>'''
| 1953
| 1954
| [[National_Party_(South_Africa)|NP]]
|-
|}

As it appears in a browser:

	Minister	Term		Party
Minister of Health	The Hon. J.H. Viljoen MP	1956	1957	NP
	The Hon. Tom Naudé MP	1954	1956	NP
	The Hon. A.J.R. van Rhijn MP	1953	1954	NP

Defunct edit

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" | Post
! Minister
! colspan="2" | Term
! Party
|- style="opacity: 0.3"
| style="width: 1px; background: {{party color|National_Party_(South_Africa)}};" |
| align="left" | '''[[Minister of Agriculture (South Africa)|Minister of Agriculture]]'''
| align="left" | [[Image:SP_le_Roux.jpg|60px]] '''<small>The Hon.</small> [[Stephanus Petrus le Roux|S.P. le Roux]] <small>MP</small>'''
| 1948
| 1958
| [[National_Party_(South_Africa)|NP]]
|-
|}

As it appears in a browser:

Post		Minister	Term		Party
	Minister of Agriculture	The Hon. S.P. le Roux MP	1948	1958	NP

Cabinet of Deputy Ministers edit

This sections uses the same table format as the previous section, expect their post title links to the ministry page and does not link to a separate deputy minister page.

[[Minister of Communications (South Africa)|Deputy Minister of Communications]]

References edit

Here you need to add a reference list template to the bottom of the page. You do not need to cite references in the cabinet table, rather reserve the citing for the Lead, History, Resignation or Shuffle sections.

==References==
{{reflist}}

Sources edit

This section is reserved for all the sources you used to construct the cabinet table. The sources must be formatted in the standard citation mark-up, you should use the cite tool provided:

==Sources==
*{{cite journal|title= |journal= |date= |volume= |issue= |url= |accessdate= }}

Categories edit

Please make sure to categorise the article.