-Caveat Lector- I will be sending some excerpts from the book The Super Afrikaners -Wilkins and Strydom which is an expose of the Broederbond. Before sending i must give a (very) short history of SA in order to contextualise the story. his is not complete but will give the jist and I will mention a couple of the interesting ironies. South Africa has always been inhabited.The Bushmen inhabited the area from earliest times. the Bantu speakin people arrived in succeesive waves from about 400-600AD inhabiting the eastern seaboard and the slowly expanding from there. Many parts of southern africa (Botswana) were only occupied at about the same time as the Afrikaners moved along the coast toward The Dutch arrived in 1652 to set up a watering point for trade in the far east and never intended colonising the country, but the farmers whom they brought started seeking fresher pastures. The Bushmen were pushed out by both Black and white through a process of extermination and assimilation. there fate in the cape was settled with the small pox outbreak of 1713 when 30% of the whites died and over 95% of the bushmen/hottentots dies( the modern PC name is Khoisan, but since the word San means thieves and murderers I avoid using it). The blacks were unaffected. The whites moved out fromthe cape along the coast until they met the Xhosa(the blacks) at fish river in about 1750/60. A series of perpetual border wars began that never ceased until the xhosa were conquered. The dutch practised wide spread slavery and brought slaves from the malaysian peninsula The British arrived in about 1800 and conquerred the cape, because of the expanding british trade with the east. The attitude to Afrikaner was mostly negative and they tried to anglicise them...causing resentment. The british also vacillated in the policy of the border wars, first favouring one party then the other. This caused a second layer of resentment. Then the brittish abolished slavery( and made it impossible for the locals to obtain compensation) The english arrived in large numbers in 1820 in the eastern cape. At this time in the centre of the country a period of tribal genocide occurred called the mfecane(the milling) in which the centre of the country became depopulated. (Shaka Zulu was a major factor in this by way of creating major disruption in Natal. It has been estimated by(non marxist) historians that up to 1m people died during that period and effectively depopulated the centre of the country- and caused the sotho to move into lesotho and the matabele to move into Zimbabwe(via the great trek) This , with the disatisfaction of the eastern cape afrikaner created the opportunity for the great trek(from which you get the film title star trek) which happened about 1835. The scenes of tribal desolation and genocideplus an act of betrayal by the zulus and an attempt at genocide set the the tone for race relations for the next 150 yrs. The British tried to maintain control by colonising Natal, but most afrikaners refused to live under british rule and trekked back to the transvaal. The british later decided to conquer the zulu kingdoms in the about ?1850. This lead to the wiping out by the zulu's of a whole regiment at Islandwana..followed by the face saving at Rourkes drift. The later venture was made into a film with michael Caine called the Ipcress file(sorry mk ultra has been getting to me and I keep seeing shape changing fairies everywhere-there better looking than reptiloids) The British started the arrangements for native areas which then at a later time became the basis for apartheid. At the time the areas were underpopulated ..thanks to shaka, so much so that when the mines started on the rand, they suffered from a labour shortages and had to import chinese coolies...who were shipped back to the last man. the white farmers also could not get labour for sugar cane farms so they imported indian coolies, which is how much later Ghandi ended up in South africa care of richard attenborough. Meanwhile the Afrikaners were setting up their republics. The blacks were treated as a conquered people.(who has heard of david livingstone- he had a lot of conflict with the afrikaners, but most of people now don't know who he is so I wont tell why) but for most cases the tribal structures remained. the afrikaner themselves remained a peasant people, a calvinistic tribe in the centre of Brutal africa. The Modern world arrives. With the discovery of diamonds, firstly and then gold brought the moder industrial age to the Afrikaner. it also brought british imperialism in the name of Cecil John Rhodes, who with the jewish mining magnates conspired to conquer the Transvaal republic in which the gold mines were situated. Th resultig war(anglo boer war) brought the death of about 90 000 people(black,afrikaner and english) mostly by disease in concentration camps. The effect on the Afrikaner was traumatic as in the transvaal it resulted in the death of almost 20-30% of the Afrikaner women and children in the transvaal. (but not the rest of the country). due to the scorched earth policy and concentration camps(who needs gas chambers- starvation and diseases is enough). This lead also to the collapse of english liberalism outside of the cape and laid the basis for apartheid which was meant as much to keep the english and jews at a distance as the blacks(before then the afrikaner was very philosemitic..Marx is a good afrikaans name in South africa and Karl marx's sister emigrated to South Africa and married a major publisher). The blacks in the cape had voting rights . The ANC is the oldest political party in South Africa having been founded in 1912. Ironically in the late 20's they told their representative3s to vote for the nationalist party ---because they regarded the party as being more socialist than afrikaner nationalist.. During the period 1904-1924, when Lord Milner wasn't setting up the beginnings of the state of Israel and the Russian Revolution and running WW1 he was trying to anglicise the afrikaner. If you were afrikaans between 1910-1940 you were excluded from senior positions in the civil service, business and virtually everywhere. If you spoke afrikaans at school you could be made to sit in the corner with a sign around your neck that " I am a donkey". (Then from 1948 they did the same to the english and now from 1994 the blacks are doing the same to the english and Afrikaners) That brings us to the coming story of the broederbond. It literally translates as the brotherhood. It rose in the years after the first world war, during the time of maximum oppression and when the afrikaner was struggling to maintain his identity. Although only consisted of about 12000men, it completely dominated the country. It created and then dismantled apartheid, (and now is an insignificant player.) In reading that which will come, bear in mind a few things. Vorster was a double agent(and a crook) and was playing a double game for smuts and Harry Oppenheimer. The book was written by journalists that worked for Mr Oppenheimers paper, the Sunday times and all the exposes of the broederbond show that it had been completely infiltrated. Mr FW Botha, mr Pik Botha were also members masons . The only PM since 1960 who actually fully believed in Apartheid was Verwoerd(and he was assassinated by a "lone nut"). (If there is an interest I will write a short note on the inevitability of the failure of apartheid and the mechanisms of its destruction Two things I will not recommend the series for everyone. Only for those who have a particular interest in South African history, or those who want to see a complete description of a how a secret power elite operates. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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