The media and social media have become the domain of strangling political correctness, and seeing the world through often irrelevant black/white biases. Outrage about real and imagined 'racial' incidents are often manufactured and blown out of proportion, which undermines genuine attempts at addressing SA's multi-faceted problems. The survey proves this. If tendentious columnists and comments, which are usually more polarised than than the articles they're commenting on, are where you obtain your opinions, then your arguments here are already problematic. 

I've no brief for IRR but it's your opinion they're not as respected as they once were. If you're going to question the survey, you'd be in a better place to do so on solid epistemic or methodological grounds rather than merely bias. Even now, having read the findings, you're unwilling to let go of your earlier position. So are YOU in the best position to advise about 'acknowledging the past' and 'redress'?