What South African society needs is to permanently set its eyes on building a more equitable social order.On the knowledge that it takes decades of policies rooted in principle and sound judgment to get there.
The wrongs of the past cannot be righted by committing new wrongs in the present.
In fact, there's every reason to believe South African society can overcome those just as it put together the world-first truth and reconciliation process in the near-past.
Occasional flare-ups, localised racial tension under very specific circumstances must not be allowed to overshadow the big picture.
To my mind, despite current uneasiness, South Africa still remains a resounding success story.
Displays of outright race-based anger, inflammatory language used on public platforms have to be condemned, indeed banned by all political forces.But especially so by ruling politicians for many years to come.
This is so because the country will continue to go through the very delicate process of nation-building.
Without achieving a level of cementing between all South Africans - blacks of different ethnic groups, whites of many origins, coloureds/mixed race people, people of Indian stock and other Asians - the country will remain internally prone to misgivings and ugly incidents with a powerful overblown destabilising potential.
I still prefer to look at the glass half-full.
These words may flow rather easily compared to daily reality on the ground.
No sound policy or practice, however, can emerge without sound ideas and reasoning.
Some may call it philosophical!
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