‖Jeugbond, noun

/ˈjiœxbɔnt/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, elliptical for Nasionale Jeugbond (National Youth League).
The youth wing of the National Party. Also attributive, and transferred sense.
[1955 Time in M. Rogers Black Sash (1956) 70Just before Strijdom arrived, 100 husky members of the Nasionale Jeugbond, the Nationalists’ youth group, shouldered the women aside, and formed a solid, muscular phalanx inside the Black Sashers’ double lines.]
1970 Daily News 25 MayThere is mounting concern in the Nationalist Party about the erstwhile energetic Jeugbond, the youth wing of the party, which is, on the present indications, dying a lingering death.
[1973 Sunday Times 27 May 6Mr. P.W. Botha disbanded the Nasionale Jeugbond in the 1950s when it became known that most of them were Strijdom supporters.]
1978 Sunday Times 19 Feb. 15Gatsha’s Zulu Jeugbond. Youth..the crucial word in South African black politics since Soweto, June 16, 1976.
1989 W. Ebersohn in Cosmopolitan Apr. 198A 31-year-old attorney had been elected to the Transvaal leadership of the Nasionale Jeugbond, the NP’s youth wing.
The youth wing of the National Party. Also attributive, and transferred sense.
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Hence Jeugbonder  noun, a member of the Jeugbond.
1955 Rand Daily Mail in M. Rogers Black Sash (1956) 82Included among the Jeugbonders, said Mrs Curry, were children of six years of age, and youths up to 18 years of age.
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