Its really puzzling having to justify ones experience of being black in South Africa, nevermind corporate south africa. As a black businessman accessing funds to start a business venture has been a lot harder to obtain in comparison to my white counterparts. For one, there is generational wealth, assets that stand as surety as well as lets be honest...skin tone. That serves as more currency, it is supported by history and present day acturial science. To contend that acquiring business confidence is not a matter of skin colour is to believe that the holocaust did not happen, slavery did not happen, aparthied did not happen, pass laws did not happen, Group Areas act did not happen. Inequality was not just imprinted socially it was enacted as part of law. 
Structural inequality is systematically entrenched in our education, governance, legal and social fabric. It was the old boys in the boardroom with not just a Black person but a Woman but a Black woman. Amnesia does not live here.