Word: afrikanerism
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Accountable "only to God" for its actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a...
Died. Colonel Deneys Reitz, 62, bald, bold, Boer-born High Commissioner for South Africa, autobiographer (Commando, Trekking On); in London. Afrikaner Reitz escaped from the British to Madagascar after the Boer War, returned from exile at the invitation of his good friend Jan Smuts, fought with the Royal Scots Fusiliers...
Bearded, unforgiving Boers, who have spent their lives fighting bearded, undeviating Slim Jannie, still do not like to hear of him beside an English princess, or playing the international game. But now they pay him the ultimate tribute: "We hate his guts, but dammit, he's still an Afrikaner...
Britons, willing enough to be taught by Jan Smuts, never think of him as an Afrikaner. They think of him as their elder counselor. In drawing rooms and pubs, when Jan Smuts's dry, old man's voice comes over the radio, the small talk and the bar...
Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring...