ABSTRACT
Across South Africa, there seems to be a yearning for something more, for something better than what people have now. It is tinged with the fear that the best may be past, and worse is on the way. Thankfully, most of those hankering after the past are looking back not to apartheid, the world's second system of governance labelled a crime against humanity; but to the immediate post-1994 era which is seen to have been better, more inclusive, more hopeful. Put simply, how South Africans of all races work and talk and relate and/or fail to do so among one another is the foundation of the future, based on a policy of redistribution and the attainment of substantive equality. The goal is not necessarily the disappearance of race, which may be impossible; but its potency can be reduced and eclipsed by other forces.
