V. V. KRUCHINSKY, Post-Graduate Student, Institute of Africa, Russian Academy Of Sciences Keywords: South Africa, Afrikaners, white poverty, sociology, post-apartheid transformation Recent trends in the international academic community suggest that, after a relatively short break, researchers have once again returned to the systematic development of the problems facing the Afrikaans community of South Africa today. In 2012, the authoritative journal African Studies, published by the British publishing house Routledge, published a thematic section Afrikaners After Apartheid, compiled following the results of the conference of the same name at the University of Stellenbosch 3. Last year, as part of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) held in Lisbon, a kind of "sub-conference" dedicated to research on the problems of "whiteness" was held, where speeches on Afrikaners played a prominent role, and a special issue of the journal Africa (Cambridge University Press) is currently being prepared for publication. University) - The Politics of Whiteness in Africa. The situation of Afrikaners in today's South Africa is not only reflected on in the pages and round tables of the above-mentioned journals and conferences: recently, three notable papers have been published that offer three different focuses for considering this topic. We will devote this review to them, starting with the works of popular and popular science directions and ending with an academic dissertation. 1. "Rigtingbedonnerd" ("At the crossroads". Cape Town, Tafelberg. 2012, 582 p.) - a book by the Dutch journalist Fred de Vries, former editor of the Africa section in the newspaper De Volkskrant-an extensive "portrait" of Afrikaners, an attempt to give the reader the widest possible idea of the current situation of this people. This "portrait" is realized in the form of a collection of essays, reports and interviews with representatives of the broadest Afrikaner strata, which de Vries at various ti ... Read more