Afrikaner Broederbond

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The Afrikaner Broederbond (Afrikaner Brotherhood; AB) was a twentieth-century South African secret society that advanced an Afrikaner nationalist agenda aimed at fostering cultural pride among Afrikaners and securing their social, political, and economic supremacy within the broader South African population.

Founding

The Broederbond was founded in Johannesburg in 1918 as Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa) by Henning J. Klopper, H.W. van der Merwe, and D.H.C. du Plessis, three teenage Afrikaners who were incensed by acts of anti-Nationalist vandalism that were carried out in response to a speech calling for the restoration of the South African Republic. Klopper, van der Merwe, and du Plessis were supported and guided in their efforts by Reverend J.F. Naude, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church.

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