sentences:  It foreshadowed the fall of Jan Christiaan Smuts and his United Party administration, a rupture in ties with the British Commonwealth, and the declaration of a Second South African Republic.Presiding over the regime which follows is Obadja Bult, a dominion theologian influenced by the ideals of the former "Ossewabrandwag".His blunt authoritarian streak gives spark to racial conflict—culminating in foreign intervention and troubled majority rule.