#broederbond

The South African whose funeral attracted more Afro-Africans than that of Nelson Mandela

From history people can learn that history is always repeating itself. Unfortunately history is not high on the list of subjects in education so people forget or are unaware of the existence of certain events. I’m not a South African but Dutch living in South Africa and, while not pretending to know it all, I do know that I know more about the South African history than the average South African.

Looking into Wikipedia it seems that the ‘Afrikaner Broederbond’ has some similarities with the ‘free masons’:

“The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) (meaning Afrikaner Brotherhood) or Broederbond was a secret, exclusively male and Afrikaner Calvinist organisation in South Africa dedicated to the advancement of Afrikaner interests. It was founded by H. J. Klopper, H. W. van der Merwe, D. H. C. du Plessis and Rev. Jozua Naudé[1] in 1918 and was known as Jong Zuid Afrika (Young South Africa) until 1920, when it became the Broederbond.[2][3] Its large influence within South African political and social life, sometimes compared to that of Masons in Freemason conspiracy theories, came to a climax with the rise of apartheid, which was largely designed and implemented by Broederbond members. Between 1948 and 1994, many prominent figures of South African political life, including all leaders of the government, were members of the Afrikaner Broederbond.[2]“

There is no substantial proof that members of the Broederbond also were free masons. Officially the Dutch Reformed Church has condemned free masonry as has the Roman Catholic Church but than the Vatican also had ties with the Italian mafia …

RAINBOW ROOM INSTALLATION

South Africa designer Pierre le Riche designed Broederbond in an attempt to explore the social issues that surround homosexuality within the Afrikaner culture and the source of masculinity in different cultures.

Broederbond is a small space set up with rugby balls hanging overhead, and furniture covered with more than 11 miles of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple acrylic threads. Made to mimic a traditional Afrikaner living room the artist intentionally mashes together the rainbow pride flag covered with the masculine stereotype of a Rugby game playing in the background.