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The Super-Afrikaners: Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond
Author(s): Ivor Wilkins (Author), Hans Strydom (Author)
- Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 616 pages
- ISBN-10: 1868425355
- ISBN-13: 9781868425358
Book Description
The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond. Out of print for over three decades, this edition with an introduction by Max du Preez is available for a new generation. 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 the earliest days to the present. The book includes the most comprehensive list of Broeders ever published.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The development, conflicts and strategies of the Broederbond are investigated at great length in this important book which simply has to be read by anyone interested in South Africa. BARRY STREEK, DAILY DESPATCH
About the Author
Ivor Wilkins was born in Potchefstroom in 1951. He entered the newspaper world as a photographer for The Daily News in Durban. He later switched to reporting, becoming the political reported of The Daily News. In 1976 he joined The Sunday Times as political reporter. He later immigrated to New Zealand where he lives today. Hans Strydom has worked as a news editor and political correspondent of the Sunday Tribune and as a news editor of the Sunday Times. He was the president of the South African Society of Journalists for three years. He died in 2004.
