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...solution," he recalls. We were going to separate the people." Smith became successively a pastor in the N.G. Church, a missionary to black regions, the church's missions director and hen a professor at Stellenbosch, the harvard of the Afrikaners. He was also invited to join the Broederbond, the powerful secret society of Afrikaner elite...
Then, ten years ago, he began to see the segregationist system as "an illusion" and quit the Broederbond. Last December, Smith gave public vent to his changed views with the publication of Storm-Kompas, a booklet in which 24 prominent Afrikaner clergy and writers attacked apartheid on religious and moral grounds. Smith was the volume's principal editor. Within the ironclad code of Afrikaner society, the book's viewpoint was shocking. The publication was only a warmup. Last month Smith was prominent among the 123 N.G. Church clergy who issued a fierce, indeed historic, protest against the regime...
...continent, and today it is more nervous than ever. The neighboring state of Rhodesia has become black-ruled Zimbabwe, and the South African-administered territory of Namibia (South West Africa) is in transition toward some form of black majority rule. Gerrit Viljoen, 53, who is both head of the Broederbond, the powerful and secretive society of ranking Afrikanerdom, and Pretoria's administrator general for Namibia, talked with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter about the effect of these turbulent political changes on South Africa's future. Excerpts...
...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...