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THE FREEMASONS OF SOUTH AFRICA BY DR A A COOPER. FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET SLIGHT FADING TO DUST JACKET AS SHOWN, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN GOOD CONDITION.
"Every society can be considered a sum total of its institutions. In common with other major institutions in South Africa, the Order of Freemasons has helped develop and shape the Republic's history since the first masonic lodge - De Goede Hoop - was founded in 1772. Many prominent men who took a leading part in the public life of South Africa were, and are, members of this Order - men like Sir John Truter, the first Chief Justice of the Cape Colony; Sir Christoffel Brand, the first Speaker of the Cape Assembly; Cecil John Rhodes, Lord Milner, Lord Kitchener; three Presidents of the Orange Free State Re-public, M.W. Pretorius, Sir John Brand and F.W. Reitz; President T.F. Burgers of the South African Republic, General Louls Botha, Sir Henry de Villers, Chairman of the National Convention; the authors C.J. Langenhoven and Gustav Preller; the financiers Sir Ernest and Mr Harry Oppenheimer; Chief Archivist of the Union, Colin Graham Botha, and many others, both English and Afrikaans-speaking and from all walks of life. The Freemasons of South Africa tells of the influence these men as Freemasons exerted on the society of their respective times. It also recounts the effect of major changes on the Order - wars, crises, depressions and booms from 1772 to the present - and, in so doing, opens up the once-closed doors of the masonic lodge to the inquiring reader." - Dust jacket
