Written and presented by David Dimbleby
2: A Band of Brothers
The film which won the Royal Television Society's Supreme Award for the Best Documentary of 1979. At the very heart of Afrikanerdom is a secret society of which virtually nothing is known outside South Africa. It is called the Broederbond, or brotherhood. Its 12,000 members operate in the shadows, dedicated to keeping the Afrikaner in the position of power he holds today and which they have helped secure.
The film tells the story of the Broederbond and with it the rise of the Afrikaner Nationalists. It is the story of the bitter legacy of the Anglo-Boer War when thousands of women and children died in the British concentration camps; the story of the discrimination Afrikaners faced when they sought work in the English-run cities. But will the Broederbond. because of its exclusiveness, now lead to the destruction of the very people it set out to protect?
Film editor PHIILIP CRUMP Producer DAVID HARRISON ' 'Repeat)