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Broederbond
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Broederbond [ˈbrʊdəˌbɔːnt ˈbruːdəˌbɒnt]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
[Afrikaans: band of brothers]


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Apartheid would not have succeeded without the Afrikaner Broederbond (NA, May p16).
When Seretse Choabe and Thabo Mbeki, two exiled ANC leaders, met with Pieter de Lange, chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond secret society at a 1986 meeting sponsored by the Ford Foundation in New York City, Choabe at first threatened to kill de Lange.
The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) made the nature of the apartheid administration unique.
 
 
 
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