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The University of Stellenbosch is the oldest Afrikaans-language university in South Africa and by far the most prestigious. Six of the country's eight Prime Ministers were graduates. One of them, Daniel Malan, was a university chancellor and another, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was a professor...
But during this era of reconciliation there arose an underground movement that preached Afrikaner solidarity and resistance to both British and blacks. Its driving force was the Broederbond (the Brotherhood), a secret society founded in 1918 to get better jobs for Afrikaners, many of them victims of economic hard times...
Sales of the book, in English and Afrikaans, have topped 25,000 and kept it on the nonfiction best-seller list for a year, a huge success in a country where nonfiction books usually sell no more than 5,000 copies. Husband-and- Wife Authors Leon Louw and Frances Kendall...
Murphy talked with a broad range of educators and Black political leaders in Capetown, Durban and Johannesburg about the proposals, he said. In addition, he spoke with white educators, including faculty at Stellenbosh University, an Afrikaans school in Capetown.
When testimony in the case began in Natal province on Oct. 21, the prosecution's star witness turned out to be Isaak de Vries, a political scientist at Rand Afrikaans University, who spent weeks describing the U.D.F.'s violent aims and A.N.C. connections. Under withering cross- examination, however, he admitted...