The Super-Afrikaners: Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond

Ivor Wilkins · Hans Strydom

Aug 2012 · Jonathan Ball Publishers

About this ebook

The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in South Africa in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of a powerful Afrikaner organisation called the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this new edition is available for a new generation and includes an introduction by Max du Preez. Formed in Johannesburg in 1918 by a group of young Afrikaners disillusioned by their role as dispossessed people in their own country, the first triumph of this remarkable organisation was the fact that it was largely responsible for welding together dissident factions within Afrikanerdom and thereby ensuring the accession of the National Party to power in 1948. This highly organised clique of Super-Afrikaners, by sophisticated political intrigue, waged a remarkable campaign to harness political, social and economic forces in South Africa to its cause ... and succeeded. Political journalists Hans Strydom and Ivor Wilkins traced, at great personal risk, its development from its earliest days. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.

Ratings and reviews

This is filling in the gaps in my South African history. The schism between the English and the Afrikaaners; cadre deployment by th NP (which I must say was more successful in a short time than that of the ANC I think); the absence of the black people in politics (they are only mentioned as a footnote). There is a lot the current government of RSA can learn from the Afrikaans people - unwavering focus in educating and upskilling the poor; putting South Africa first in all matters; preservation of indigenous languages. Of course they did terrible things to black people (hell they sided with the Nazi to ensure the independence of South Africa. If Hitler had won WW2, definitely the black population would have also experianced the holocaust) but that does not mean we, the black population cannot learn from them. History is to be learnt especially when its bad so that the present people know how to progress constructively into the future.