Afrikaner Broederbond
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- This page refers to the Afrikaner Broederbond. For the its later incarnation see Afrikanerbond, For the political party formed in 1881 by Rev S.J. du Toit, see Afrikaner Bond. For the unrelated company, see Brøderbund.
The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) (meaning Afrikaner Brotherhood) or Broederbond was a secret, exclusively male, Protestant organisation in South Africa dedicated to the advancement of Afrikaner interests. Founded by H.J. Klopper, H.W. van der Merwe, D.H.C. du Plessis and Rev. J.F. Naude in 1918 the organization was known as Jong Zuid Afrika (Young South Africa) until 1920 when it formally became the Afrikaner Broederbond.[1]
References
- ^ Wilkins, Ivor; Strydom, Hans (1980), The Super=Afrikaners. Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond (Paperback ed.), Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball