Is July's People by Nadine Gordimer "deeply racist, sexist, patronising, one-sided and outdated"?

In 2001, a panel of teachers (all white) appointed by the education department of South Africa's most highly populated and important province called a ban on Nadine Gordimer's July's People on the grounds it was "deeply racist, sexist, patronising, one-sided and outdated". Do you agree with the above assessment of the novel?