Orangia Unie (United Orange) was a political party established in May 1906 in theOrange River Colony (formerly theOrange Free State) under the leadership ofAbraham Fischer,[1]Martinus Theunis Steyn andJ. B. M. Hertzog.[2] When the colony gained self-government in 1907, the party formed the government.
Upon the creation of theUnion of South Africa in May 1910, it merged withAfrikaner Bond, theSouth African Party, andHet Volk, the dominant political parties of theCape Colony andTransvaal, creating the pan-UnionSouth African Party in 1911.
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