Prof Christi van der Westhuizen from the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria will present the seminar. While earlier Afrikaner nationalist battles during the course of the 20th century were about divergent claims on Afrikanerhood, another position joined the fray as official apartheid ended: those who shun Afrikanerhood in totality. Disavowal demonstrates the extent of the identity’s dislocation. Its implication in apartheid, instrumental in the political, economic and social ascendancy of those who called themselves Afrikaners, has re-stigmatised the identity as morally suspect. With the apartheid imaginary in tatters, Afrikaners are faced with the fact that the system was put in place in their name. Claiming ‘Afrikaner’ has become a risky business. How does one then describe this subject position, given that ‘Afrikaner’ is overdetermined with clashing meanings? An ethnicised respectability captured by the Afrikaans word ordentlikheid is proposed here to be the conveyor of elements that constitute the white, Afrikaans-speaking subject.