Word: broederbond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inequities and hardships blacks suffer in South Africa and is devoted to finding a solution, albeit an Afrikaaner solution, to South Africa's racial troubles. Dr. Koornhof, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, and the Foreign Minister Pik Botha, are "verligte" i.e. liberal Afrikaaners. Dr. Treurnicht, a former chairman of the Broederbond, is "verkrampte" i.e. conservative. The question of South Africa's future will depend to a large extent on the political struggle between these factions of South Africa's national party...
...Immorality Act, the laws under which more than 15,000 South Africans have been prosecuted for marrying or having sexual relations across the color line. Botha urged the reforms with rhetoric that is mild by U.S. standards but nearly inflammatory for a dedicated member of the Broederbond, the Afrikaner secret society. Said he: "There are higher things in life than to stare at the color of a man's skin. We are prepared to allow black people into our kitchens to prepare our food, but the moment a black appears next to us in the post office...
Church-state unanimity runs deeper than doctrine. The liberal Johannesburg Sunday Times this year published a major expose on the Broederbond, the secret clan of 12,000 leading Afrikaners sworn to uphold apartheid and considered to be more powerful than Parliament. The Sunday Times reported that 750 Afrikaner ministers, fully 40% of the clergy, were Broederbond members...
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 members and at least 75% of National Party members of parliament. The Broederbond's chairman since 1974 has been Gerrit Viljoen, rector of the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg...
...Each Broederbond division meets monthly and discusses a circular sent out from the head offices in Johannesburg. The circular contains directives on every facet of public life that may become an issue: politics, racial problems, security matters, vacant posts that breeders should fill. Thus on any given issue there are 10,000 men in a position to propagandize Afrikaner society with the Broederbond line. The public has no way of knowing whether or not apparently spontaneous public statements are actually made at the Broederbond's behest...