Bond of broeders: Anton Hartman and music in an apartheid state

Musical Times, Summer 2004 by Walton, Chris

But let us close on a different note. Mia Hartman relates only one hobby of her uncle: ornithology. he could even, she writes, mimic the calls of a great variety of birds. Since reading this passage, the present writer has suffered from a recurrent mental picture of Anton Hartman, leading fascist functionary, alone with his loons in the bush, cooing 'Poo-wee! Poo-wee ' to his feathered friends. I shall never be able to think of the Broederbond in the same way again.

i. see Gustav Saron: 'The making of South African Jewy', in Leon Feldberg, ed.: South African Jewry (Johannesburg: Fieldhill, 1965), p.43.

2. see Hermann Giliomee: The Afrikaners: biography of a people (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2003), p.416.

3. see Viktor Klemperer: LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen, loth edition (Leipzig: Reclam, 1996), P-313.

4. see Stephanus Muller: 'Spaces of nationness: on myth, masks, music and Afrikaner identity', in: Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans, vol.8 no.1 (June 2001).

5- see Giliomee: op. cit., P-525.

6. Dirkie de Villiers: 'Die Afrikaner se musiekprestasies gedurencle die afgelope kwarteeu', in: Referate gelewer by geleentheid van die twaalfde tweejaarlikse hongres en silwerjubileutn van die FAK [no editor named] (Johannesburg: FAK, 1955), P.35.