A five-part series written and presented by David Dimbleby
2: A Band of Brothers
This film won the Royal
Television Society's Supreme Award for the best documentary of 1979. It tells the story of the secret society which lies at the very heart of Afrikanerdom, called the Broederbond, or brotherhood. Its 12,000 members operate in the shadows, dedicated to keeping the Afrikaners in the position they have helped secure. They have infiltrated every walk of public life in South Africa from school councils to the cabinet itself. It all began in the bitter legacy of the Anglo-Boer War when thousands of Afrikaner women and children died in the British concentration camps. It continued through the years of discrimination Afrikaners faced when they sought work in the British-run cities where they were not even allowed to speak their own language. But by contributing to Afrikaner Nationalist exclusiveness, other
Afrikaners believe that the Broederbond may now contribute to the downfall of the very people it set out to protect.
Associate producer FRANCIS GERARD Producer DAVID HARRISON