South African Bureau for Racial Affairs

The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (SABRA) (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Buro vir Rasse-Angeleenthede) was a South African think tank based at Stellenbosch University.[1][2][3] It was founded in 1948 at the initiative of the Afrikaner Broederbond as an alternative to the liberal South African Institute of Race Relations.[2]

Its co-founders were primarily Afrikaner intellectuals, and included Eben Dönges, Ernest George Jansen, Nico Diederichs, and Andries Charl Cilliers.[4]: 119 

SABRA sought to give an academic and theoretical justification for the National Party's policy of Apartheid, and influenced the development of that policy during the 1950s and beyond. A number of SABRA members made an important contributors to the Tomlinson Commission, which formulated a strategy for developing the Bantustans.[2]

References
  1. Lazar, John. "The Role of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs in the Formulation of Apartheid Ideology, 1948-1981" (PDF).
  2. "South African Bureau for Racial Affairs". O'Malley Archive.
  3. Giliomee, Hermann (2011). The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. Hurst.
  4. Stultz, Newell M (1974). The Nationalists in Opposition 1934-1948. Cape Town and Pretoria: Human & Rousseau. ISBN 0798105623.


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