After the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 , under enormous international pressure , the Broederbond began a slow and quiet re-examination of their policy proposals . And yet no significant changes took place to reform the apartheid system until the Soweto riots in 1976 . Some time after this , the Broederbond declared apartheid an irreformable failure and began work to dismantle it . The conviction had finally become established , although not universally that , if the Afrikaner people , language and religion were to survive , they must take the initiative to emerge from the laager , and invite South Africa in . The Broederbond ( dropping the policy of secrecy and with the new name '' Afrikanerbond '' ) began proposing initiatives for land reform and the reversal of apartheid
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
Afrikaner Calvinism