Formed in 1998. Leader Cassie Aucamp
AFRIKANER KULTUURBOND
(AFRIKANER CULTURE BOND)
Chairman: Mossie van den Bergh
Founded at the end of November 1990. Aim as cultural umbrella organisation. Radio Pretoria was later established under the guardianship of the AKB. Pastor Mossie Van den Bergh serves as chairman of the Radio Pretoria committee.
AFRIKANER VOLKSFRONT (AVF)
Disbanded in November 1996
President: Dr Ferdi Hartzenberg
Chief Secretary: Col Piet Botha
The most important development in the circles of the Boere-Afrikaner Nation during the transitional period. The AVF was the first umbrella organisation that succeeded in uniting all the important parties of the Boer-Afrikaner nation.
The AVF had achieved a remarkable measure of success, combining virtually all the para-miltary and political strength of the Boer-Afrikaner nation in a single umbrella organisation, the AVF was regarded as perhaps the single most serious threat to a peaceful transition.
After the 27 April 1994, one man one vote election the AVF established a Volksrepubliek werkkomitee - VWK (Volk's Republic working committee) to "gather all relevant information and to put the ideal of Afrikaner self- determination into practice." The AVF was disbanded in November 1996.
BOERE VRYHEIDSBEWEGING (BVB) (Boer Freedom Movement)
The BVB may be regarded as the forerunner of the EK25/Vekom/Cog grouping that led to the establishment of the AVF in May 1993.
The BVB was founded on 28 January 1989 by Alkmaar Swart (CVO), and Jan Groenewald (Vekom) and others.Prof. Swart was elected as the leader, but later withdrew later as he got more involved with the establishment of CVO schools.
Groenewald was elected leader after being Chief Secretary for a while.
The central ideology of the BVB is freedom for the Boer in a "Christian Republican" Volkstaat wedging northwards from Pretoria.
CHRISTELIKE VOLKSEIE ONDERWYS (CVO)
(Christian Volks' Education) The BoerNation alternative to integration in schools. Several schools have already been established under the guidance of prof. Alkmaar Swart (see BvB). At first viewed with some scepticism, the concept is fast gaining popularity.
The CVO concept received added impetus after the 1994 white paper on education was published with a AVF congress on education held in November 1994 strongly advocating the establishment of CVO schools.
DIETSE FEDERASIE
(Dutch Federation) A group with links to Boere-Afrikaner nation and overseas organisations such as the Dietse Blok. It has chapters in South Africa, Belgium and the Netherlands and its stated mission is to forge cultural, economical and political links with the above mentioned countries.
Henk van de Graaf is Chief Secretary of the movement since its inception in 1958.
GENOOTSKAP VIR DIE HANDHAWING VAN AFRIKAANS
recently re-activated. INFO BEING UPDATED)
HERSTIGTE NASIONALE PARTY (HNP)*
(Re-established National Party)
ALTHOUGH negligible in terms of its small membership and proven voter's support, the HNP is still significant in as far as it represents a viewpoint still adhered to by a large number of old supporters. Uncharismatic leadership and a rather staid and old-fashioned image has nevertheless prevented the party to capitalise on this support.
The HNP was founded in October 1969 when dr Albert Hertzog, a former cabinet Minister and three other MP's were kicked out of the National Party. After the death of Hertzog, one of them, Jaap Marais became the leader.
Polling between 3,5 and 3,3% of the total vote during the 1970, 1974 and 1977 elections, the HNP looked set to take off when its support jumped to 14,1% in the general election of 1981.
With the newly formed Conservative Party contesting the election in 1987, the HNP's support dwindled once again to 2,9% reaching an all-time low in 1989 when it could only attract 0,25% of the votes.
Although not as outspoken in tone as the CP, the HNP has since its founding in 1969 hardly budged from stated policy. Refusing to negotiate with anybody to the left of the National Party when it was still in government, it wants a return to grand apartheid with black people relegated to Bantustans.
Its opposition to a smaller homeland for the Boere-Afrikaner, has also cost it its membership of the Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF).
Inadvertently, leader Jaap Marais had perhaps been responsible for a large part of the acerbic squabbles that had come to once again characterise the division towards the end of 1994. A prolific author of books, booklets and assorted pamphlets he has been instrumental in sowing distrust between erstwhile compatriots and has never kept his disdain of Viljoen and others a secret.
FREEDOM ALLIANCE
A political pressure group that consisted of the Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the former Ciskeian and Bophutatswana homeland governments, and the Conservative Party (CP).
The FA was viewed by many as a rather tenuous alliance of spoilers bonded by the "strive for a own homeland." All the members have at one stage or another pulled out of the multiparty negotiations process at the World Trade Centre, stating as their central reason the perception that the NP and ANC were pushing a pre-determined agenda roughshod past the other parties.
The founder members of the FA were originally all members of the Concerned South Africans Group (Cosag). This organisation was disbanded in October 1993 only to re-emerge as the Freedom Alliance.
The FA pushed a strong regional agenda with some of its members subscribing to confederalism and others to federalism, the FA rejects the notion of a unitary state. The FA also stated the following principles in its founding manifesto:
The recognition of the right of self-determination.
The protection and promotion of free-market enterprise and ownership.
Entrenched limitations of the power of the central government.
That Southern Africa be organised in member states which are primarily responsible for governance of the peoples to express their rights to self-determination.
Although the FA has ceased to exist as an active alliance, the links between its former members still remain.
FREEDOM FRONT
Ostensibly registered at first to serve as an election vehicle for a possible coalition party consisting of members of the now defunct Freedom Alliance, the party was eventually used as an election vehicle for general Constand Viljoen and his direct supporters.
Riding on the ticket of a Volkstaat to be pursued by the peaceful means of the Volkstaatraad (Volkstaat Council) after the elections, Viljoen was hounded by hard core rightwingers for his decision to contest the election.
When Viljoen announced his decision to partcipate barely a month before the elections, the FF's participation was nevertheless not an absolute certainty until a few days before the elections were to take place.
Using a combination of brinkmanship and promises, Viljoen eventually succeeded in getting the National Party and the ANC to sign a tripartite accord on 23 April making provision for the Volkstaatraad.
On polling day itself Viljoen dropped his ballot paper at the Voortrekkerhoogte polling station together with 35 former generals. Among them were general Mike Geldenhuys, a former commissioner of police and Hendrik van den Berg, formerly the man from BOSS.
The FF eventually polled a total of 424 555 votes on a national level and 639 643 votes on a provincial level. This latter number was viewed by Viljoen as "real and proven" support for the ideal of a Volkstaat among Afrikaners. According to Viljoen it proved that between 35% and 40% of the 1,8 Afrikaners supported the Volkstaat ideal.
The results allowed the FF nine MP's, several of them former CP MP's. They are: Pieter Groenewald, former CP MP for Stilfontein, Corné Mulder, former MP for Randfontein, his brother Pieter, former MP for Schweizer Reinecke, Josef Chiolé, former MP for Pretoria West and Willie Botha, former MP for Rustenburg. Others were Pieter Grobbelaar, Willem Botha and Leon Louw. Four senators were appointed: Rosier de Ville, Tienie Groenewald, Carl Werth, Piet Gous and Dries Bruwer.
KONSERWATIEWE PARTY (KP)* / CONSERVATIVE PARTY (CP).
Founded in March 1982 under the leadership of dr Andries Treurnicht, who until earlier that month had been Transvaal leader of the National Party and cabinet minister in PW Botha's cabinet.
After serious differences of opinion between Treurnicht and the cabinet on issues such as mixed sport on school level and intimations that Indian and Coloured representatives may become part of the decision making process, Treurnicht and fellow cabinet minister Ferdi Hartzenberg resigned their posts on 1 March 1982. On 9 March they were kicked out of the NP and together with 15 other right wing MP's founded the CP on 20 March 1982.
Initially rapidly growing in support, the CP soon became the white right's most important representative body. Their first test at the ballot box came in the 1983 referendum. Although voters could not vote for political parties the "No-vote" advocated by the CP eventually constituted 35,5% of the total votes.
During the (all-white) general election of September 1989, the CP won 39 seats (or 31% of the vote) to become the official opposition in parliament.
After the Boer-Afrikaner nation cause was dealt a devastating blow by the 1992 referendum and the pace of the reforms instituted by president FW de Klerk on 2 February 1990, the CP seemed to be losing not only supporters but also momentum.
Largely contributing to this was the the effective NP propaganda machine based on the principil "Don't tell the truth".
The failure of the CP to spell out practical details of a homeland for the whites caused some dissent among certain MP's, notably Andries Beyers, CP MP for Potchefstroom and formerly chief secretary of the party.
In August 1992 Beyers led a breakaway group 5 MP's to form the Afrikaner Volksunie (AVU), a group propagating a smaller homeland for the Afrikaner. The party is for all practical purposes defunct, its policy having since being taken over by the CP.
In February 1993 the CP officially launched its "mobilisation program" in order to mobilise "on all fronts for freedom." With official policy still vague and vacillating this program never really got off the ground apart from the creation of a wide-ranging administrative structure.
The formation of the Afrikaner Volksfront later that year, the general acceptance in Boer-Afrikaner nation circles of the Volkstaat- ideal, the death of Treurnicht, the election of the apparently more assertive Hartzenberg and a new militancy right across the political spectrum, flogged the ailing horse into some kind of life once again.
It was however short-lived. The decision not to participate in the 1994 elections effectively closed several avenues to the CP with a lack of a clear-cut policy hounding the party once again after the elections.
Party has been disnabanded in 1996.
KRUGERGENOOTSKAP
(Kruger Association)
An cultural organisation under chairmanship of historian professor PG Nel. Its main function seems to have been the coordination of traditional Kruger Day festivities.
Independent weekly mouthpiece of the CP / AEB. Edited by Koos Kemp.
POLITIEKE REGTE ORGANISASIE (PRO)
(Political Rights Organisation) Under the chairmanship of Avril Budd this organisation is only concerned with the political rights of Boers in detention. The organisation demands, among other things, that Boers detained under section 29 be brought before the court and that those detained in Soweto be removed to other prisons.
STUDIEGROEP VIR EIETYDSE GESKIEDENIS (SEGE)
(Study Group for Contemporary History)
One of the movements attending the May 7 meeting of the AVF. A conservative think-tank based in Pretoria.
Dr. Cas Bakkes (see CDB)
TRANSVAALSE SEPARATISTE
(Transvaal Separatists)
Secessionist movement with limited influence based around Nylstroom. Active in the early nineties, the organisation may have been usurped by AVF structures since.
VERENIGING BYBEL EN VOLK
(association Bible and Nation)
Ds MJ Booyens
VERENIGING VAN ORANJEWERKERS* See Avstig/AV
(Association of Orange Workers)
VERKENNERS, DIE
(The Scouts)
Can be regarded as the counterpart of the Ruiterwag/Junior Rapportryers (Broederbonders in waiting) and in the same sense as the junior branch of Toekomsgesprek (see TG).
Membership is confidential and strictly by invitation.
Very active welfare organisation founded in 1992 to assist unemployed and destitute Afrikaners. Apart from strict guidelines based on culture, Volkshulp 2000 does a lot in helping people find employment.
Offices in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Kimberley with an added 34 centres. Some of these offices provide food for up to 1200 people three times a day while trying to find work for an estimated 287 000 unemployed whites.
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