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On the most important issues, however, Vorster will stick to the course he has already set. In an interview last week with the Afrikaans magazine Huisgenoot, the Prime Minister insisted that there would be no concessions on political power-sharing with blacks on a national level. He will proceed with...
Robert van Tonder, 54, is a 14th generation Afrikaner whose Danish ancestors arrived in the New Cape colony in 1700. He lives with his second wife and his six children in a rambling, thatched-roof farmhouse on a 100-acre homestead 20 miles west of Johannesburg. It is a peaceful...
The Broederbond was founded by 37 Afrikaner professional and businessmen in 1918, primarily to combat the growing dominance of English language and culture following the defeat of the two Boer republics and the formation of the Union of South Africa under British rule. Since then, the organization has grown to...
During the 1930s Depression, the Broederbond provided financial aid to thousands of poor Afrikaners. It also founded the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organizations (F.A.K.), which evolved into an umbrella organization that now coordinates hundreds of national cultural societies. Concentrating on education, the Broederbond opposed the language policy of Prime Minister...
Membership in the Broederbond is limited to white males of at least 25 years of age who speak Afrikaans and be long to one of the Afrikaner churches. Roughly half of the country's white ministers, school officials and university rectors are Broederbond members. So are virtually all Cabinet...