MICHAEL MORRIS: Nondelivery, not race, is the barrier to black progress

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans to “embrace each other as equals, and look beyond [our] preconceptions of someone merely by looking at their skin colour”.

Invoking what he called “perhaps our most important [achievement] … our sustained and unwavering commitment to transformation and nonracialism”, he recommended: “Let us move beyond the psychological barrier in the interests of rebuilding this country together.”