This may be true for the vision of Thabo Mbeki and those around him, but I am less convinced that we are any further along the road to true non-racialism than we were in the 1980s. If anything we may be backsliding. The composition of Hunt and Lascaris s Dream Team is problematic - they all speak and think so much the same. Finally, the obsession with the market and globalisation comes at time of a global capitalist meltdown. Economic and political chaos reigns in Russia.
Japan is shaky.
The Asian Tigers claws have been severely clipped, and we are experiencing a serious knock-on effect here. Though Hunt and Lascaris have produced a provocative and readable study, one that I am sure will be very successful and possibly influential, this book should be seen as a starting point for a much broader debate.