Whiteness Afrikaans Afrikaners

South Africa has been reeling under the recent blows of an apparent resurgence of crude public manifestations of racism and a hardening of attitudes on both sides of the racial divide. To probe this topic as it relates to white South Africans, Afrikaans and Afrikaners, MISTRA, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), convened a round-table discussion. The discourse was rigorous. This volume comprises the varied and thought-provoking presentations from that event, including a keynote address by former president Kgalema Motlanthe, inputs from Melissa Steyn, Andries Nel, Mary Burton, Christi van der Westhuizen, Lynette Steenveld, Bobby Godsell, Dirk Hermann (of Solidarity), Ernst Roets (of Afriforum), Xhanti Payi, Mathatha Tsedu, Pieter Duvenage, Hein Willemse and Nico Koopman, and closing remarks by Achille Mbembe and Mathews Phosa. It deals with a range of issues around "whiteness" in general and delves into the place of Afrikaners and the Afrikaans language in democratic South Africa, demonstrating that there is no homogeneity of views on these topics among white South Africans overall and Afrikaners in particular. In fact, in these pages, one finds a multifaceted effort to scrub energetically at the boundaries that apartheid imposed on all South Africans in different ways

Keynote address / Kgalema Motlanthe. -- Being white today. Whiteness : post-apartheid, decolonial / Melissa Steyn -- Where are the Suzmans, Slovos, Fischers and Naudes of today? / Andries Nel -- The 'white man's burden' : fifteen years after the TRC / Mary Burton -- White power today / Christi van der Westhuizen -- Whiteness and the South African economy. Capitalism, racialism and whiteness / Lynette Steenveld -- The colour of capital / Bobby Godsell -- Dear Mother Africa / Dirk Hermann -- Double standards and black privilege : the new story of South Africa / Ernst Roets -- The demands of the new world sustain the sins of the old : the parks fable on transformation / Xhanti Payi -- The world of ideas : the place of Afrikaans. The world of ideas : the place of Afrikaans / Mathatha Tsedu -- Afrikaner intellectual history : an interpretation / Pieter Duvenage -- The hidden histories of Afrikaans / Hein Willemse -- A South African ('n Suid Afrikaner) university : is it possible? / Nico Koopman -- Closing remarks / Achille Mbembe ; Mathews Phosa.