The first cabinet of Hendrik Verwoerd refers to the ministers who initially comprised the government of South African apartheid-era prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd following that country's severing of remaining of governmental ties with the United Kingdom and associated abolition of the South African Monarchy. Included in the cabinet was Albert Hertzog, future founder of the offshoot re-established National Party, the spiritual successor to the World War II era Reunited National Party founded by his father and associated with former prime-minister D. F. Malan.