Tsukudu Speaks

In 1776, a Bavarian law professor by the name of Adam Weishaupt gathered five of his students to become members of his organisation which sought to advocate for secular rule of European states, removing religious and monarchical influence in government and replacing it with logic and rationale. This group would call themselves "the Order of the Illuminati," which means "the illuminated ones." The membership grew to include doctors and lawyers, and the group lasted for 10 years before the Duke of Bavaria, Karl Theodor, made it illegal for organisations like the Illuminati to exist, and they are said to not have achieved much in their 10-year official existence. Over 130 years later, a group of Afrikaner men in a colonised African country would adopt their modus operandi and become an Illuminati of sorts themselves: the Afrikaans Illuminati known as the Afrikaner-Broederbond. After the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, the Afrikaners suffered monumental losses from the British ...