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Particularly in the cities, whites seem edgy and ill-tempered. To a group of neighbors who were gossiping about the rise in thefts and the burglarizing of homes, a white housewife in an affluent suburb of Johannesburg complained: "They [the blacks] are gathering all the time in small groups around the neighborhood. A few years ago, the police would have stopped them or picked them up. Now they're just everywhere. I never even walk any more." Many feel plagued by uncertainty. "People just don't make plans," says Nadine Gordimer. "They can't make up their minds, whether...
...poor white neighborhoods near Johannesburg, where the red brick row houses resemble those of Soweto, people are equally apprehensive. Says Mrs. Hestor Nortje, a widow: "We can live with the blacks, but can they live with us? There is so much suspicion, you don't know whether a man is going to kill you or not. If you live in the same area, the blacks will take the attitude they are better than the whites and take over...
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 countryside of rolling brown hills, white fences and grazing cattle. In Van Tonder's home, his small study is crammed with books in Afrikaans on the Great Trek and the Boer War. In the Afrikaner tradition, extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly...
...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...