“Their book is one of the most important to come out of South Africa in this decade. The authors pose the fascinating question: why did a privileged ethnic minority, which could have dominated into the twenty-first century if it had wished so, negotiate itself out of power?…The sting of the book is in the tail, where the authors discuss the escalating conflict between the ANC and its alliance partners, the SACP (SA Communist Party) and the COSATU (Congress of SA Trade Unions) over the government’s macro-economic policy document GEAR (Growth, Employment and Redistribution). This concluding section of the book is a study in irony.”
( Courtesy of Times Literary Supplement, paperback 240 pages )