Fourteen years since those days, has the sport managed to transform itself from white domination to a multi-racial institution?
The story of Thandi wines begins in 1996, two years after the first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.
Across the causeway, Singapore has prided itself on creating a multi-racial society without the use of policies defined by race.
But the book does not climax, as a standard historical text might, with South Africa's first proper multi-racial elections in 1994.
What of the future of Mr Chaudhry, till May the country's elected Indo-Fijian prime minister, and head of a multi-racial government?
"This confirms that although transformation is slow, we are getting there, " she said of South Africa's shift to a multi-racial society.
Once predominately African-American, New Orleans is returning to its more multi-racial past while re-establishing its strong cultural and social ties to Latin America.
And though Brazil is not free of racism, it has been strikingly more successful than the United States and many other countries in creating a multi-racial society (see article).
Even the recently formed United Democratic Movement, an effort by an Afrikaner, Roelf Meyer, and an African, Bantu Holomisa, to gather multi-racial support, is favoured by just 4% of voters.
"I think in terms of getting people to respond, especially with the new race question on the census form, it's excellent, " said Ramona Douglass, president of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans, which represents interracial families and multi-racial people.
Estates like Holly Street in Hackney have also benefited from multi-million pound government refurbishment programmes, resulting in fewer cases of racial tension, graffiti, vandalism and muggings.
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