What is the moral of the story, "Six Feet of the Country," by Nadine Gordimer?

I'm not sure there is an explicit moral to Gordimer's "Six
Feet of the Country." More likely is the fact that her intention is to make readers come
to an emotional realization similar to that of her
characters.

From one perspective, we see the young man who
dies struggling to make a life for himself, risking everything for a better life, all to
no avail. In the end, neither he or his family are even capable of purchasing a small
parcel of land for a grave.

From another perspective, we
see the white employer struggling to make sense of the confusion and tension created by
the policies of a bureaucratic government that make such simple tasks so exceedingly
difficult simply because of the color of one's skin.