   christiaan frederick beyers naudÃ© (10 may 1915 &ndash; 7 september 2004) was a south african cleric, theologian and the leading afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. he was known simply as beyers naudÃ©, or more colloquially, oom bey (afrikaans, uncle bey). ==family background and early life== one of eight children, beyers naudÃ© was born to jozua franÃ§ois naudÃ© and adriana johanna naude (nee) van huysteen in roodepoort, transvaal (now gauteng). the progenitor of the naudÃ© name was a french huguenot refugee named jacques naudÃ© who arrived in the cape in 1718.ces francais qui ont fait l'afrique du sud. translation: the french people who made south africa. bernard lugan. january 1996. isbn 2-84100-086-9. the naudÃ© surname is one of numerous french surnames that retained their original spelling in south africa. beyers naudÃ© was named for general christiaan frederick beyers, under whom his father had served as a soldier and unofficial pastor during the second anglo-boer war."beyers naudÃ©." african national congress. retrieved on 21 august 2008. jozua naudÃ©, an afrikaner cleric, "was convinced that the british would never leave." he helped found and was the first chairpersonobituary: the rev beyers naudÃ© &mdash; courageous afrikaner cleric who became a champion of south africa's liberation struggle. mungo suggot. the guardian. wednesday 8 september 2004. retrieved on 21 august 2008. of the broederbond (afrikaans, "brotherhood" or "league of brothers"),"naudÃ©, christiaan frederick beyers, b. 1915. reformed. south africa." norbert c. brockman, 1994. an african biographical dictionary. retrieved on 21 august 2008 the powerful afrikaner men's secret society that played a dominant role in apartheid south africa. the broederbond became especially synonymous with the afrikaner-dominated national party that won power in 1948 and implemented the racial segregation policy of apartheid. the elder naudÃ© also helped produce the earliest translations of the bible into afrikaans. in 1921, the naudÃ© family moved to 
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