“The focus of the seminar was on South Africa, whose nature can be characterised
as transformed, yet still transforming, but one that has effected shifts from a closed,
exclusionary society structurally defined by racial oppression functionally operating
on the basis of exploitation and subjugation – to one that is open,democratic and underpinned by a mutually reinforcing set of rights and responsibilities. In such a
changed and changing context, there are obvious ways in which antagonistic relations
of yore are transformed into relationships of potential co-operation rather than
obstructionist opposition, constructive engagement rather than debilitating conflict.”
