Broederbond
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Broederbond
Afrikaans: band of brothers
Example Sentences
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Botha urged the reforms with rhetoric that is mild by U.S. standards but nearly inflammatory for a dedicated member of the Broederbond, the Afrikaner secret society.
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The most powerful organization in South Africa is the Afrikaner Broederbond.
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Smuts ordered South African civil servants and state schoolteachers to resign Broederbond membership at once.
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While in Pretoria he was honored with an invitation to join the Broederbond, the secret brotherhood that unites the ruling caste of Afrikanerdom and has long provided the country with a kind of inner government.
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Ten of the new ministers, like Malan himself, belonged to the Afrikaner Broederbond, a fanatic secret society which Smuts had once banned as subversive.
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