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Even the shadowy Broederbond, whose whole purpose is to work for Afrikaner power, is beginning to make strange noises. First it forced out about 1,000 members who had split with the Nationalists to form the ultraright Herstigte (Reconstituted) National Party. Then, last year, it began circulating among its members a "working document" that canvassed opinion on the idea of a multiracial government. "The rights of all groups should be advanced and fulfilled," it said. Now Broederbond Chairman Jan Pieter de Lange is speaking openly of a "tremendous need for more contact ((between races)) to build up mutual understanding...
...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, and to promote the use of Afrikaans, a hybrid variant of Dutch that became a written language only in the middle of the 19th century. Today, though not listed in any telephone book, the Broederbond has 12,000 members in more than 800 cells, including President Botha (Member...
...Broederbond's most zealous racists, Daniel Malan, founded the present-day National Party in 1934 and finally achieved the Afrikaners' revenge in the election of 1948. He defeated Smuts and the British influence under a new slogan: apartheid. It was not really new, of course. The South Africa Act of 1909, passed by the British Parliament, had barred blacks from sitting in the legislature. The Natives Land Acts of 1913 had established a few black "reserves" and claimed the remaining 85% of the nation for whites. Interracial sex was proscribed as far back...
...over this state of folly was one of Malan's most dogmatic successors, Hendrik Verwoerd. In a radio broadcast, Verwoerd declared, "The policy of separate development ((apartheid)) is designed for happiness, security and stability . . . for the Bantu as well as the whites." Said Andries Treurnicht, onetime chairman of the Broederbond and subsequently founder of the breakaway Conservative Party: "We believe that justice is best attained by way of differentiation or separate development...
...government is the captive of its own meaningless rhetoric," observes Stellenbosch Economics Professor Sampie Terreblanche, a leading National Party adviser, member of the Broederbond and, until he was fired last month for joining the 27, vice chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corp. "The government is never prepared to admit mistakes. It will not dismantle apartheid. The National Party is an Afrikaner party, and it intends to keep power not just in white hands but in Afrikaner hands. It was never in favor of real reform. That was just cosmetic, to prolong Afrikaner control...