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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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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.
On the African continent, South Africa's white supremacist Afrikaner Broederbond - whose stormtroopers marched to the drum of the Hitlerian Brown Shirts in the late 1930s and '40s - and its doctrine of apartheid were instances of this political phenomenon.
 
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