The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) (meaning Afrikaner Brotherhood) or Broederbond was a secret, exclusively male and Afrikaner Calvinist organization 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 in 1918 and was known as Jong Zuid Afrika (Young South Africa) until 1920, when it became the Broederbond.

The Afrikaner brother-hood were involved in the rise of apartheid in South Africa:


Its large influence within South African political and social life, sometimes compared to that of Masons in Freemason conspiracy theories,[citation needed] came to a climax with the rise of apartheid, which was largely designed and implemented by Broederbond members.

Members of the Afrikaner Broederbond, was a grouping of 37 white men of Afrikaner ethnicity, Afrikaans language, and the Calvinist Dutch Reformed faith, who shared cultural, semi-religious, and deeply political objectives based on traditions and experiences dating back to the arrival of Dutch white settlers, French Huguenots, and Germans at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries and including the dramatic events of the Great Trek in the 1830s and 1840s.

“The Afrikaner Broederbond was born out of the deep conviction that the Afrikaner volk (white race) has been planted in this country by the Hand of God to continue the curse that Noah spoke over Ham (canaanite) the father of Cush, who was the ancient father of Africa, and to reign and rule south Africa with a hand of iron destined to survive as a separate volk with its own calling.”

The Afrikaner Broederbond continued to act in secret, infiltrating and gaining control of the few organisations, such as the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU), which had political power and were opposed to a further escalation of Apartheid policies.

Every Prime Minister and State President in South Africa from 1948 to the end of Apartheid in 1994 was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond.