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Call The Jewish News 354-5959 New York (JTA) — The Jews of South Africa are not at the moment concerned with anti-Semitism from Afrikaans extremists on the right or occasional anti- Israel statements from the African National Congress on the left. What concerns them is the likelihood of a stable transition to majority government. That was the message delivered by Seymour Kopelowitz, executive direc- tor of South Africa's Board of Jewish Deputies, in recent meetings with Jewish organ- izations here. Following the release of Nelson Mandela and the dismantling of apartheid's legal structure, South Africa faces the very difficult se- cond stage of political change, said Mr. Kopelowitz. Now on the agenda are the question of equal voting rights and the beginning of the transition to a majority- Kuled government. Mr. Kopelowitz, whose organization represents his country's 114,000 Jews, said that while change is in- evitable, the outcome is uncertain. "The Jewish community's fate is tied to the fate of the white community," he told leaders of the Union of Or- thodox Jewish Congrega- tions of America last week, stressing that the country's economic health is crucial to a smooth transition. "If the economy fails, the whole structure will col- lapse," he said. "Americans have an obligation to pro- mote reinvestment." While the U.S., the Euro- pean Community, and Israel have all lifted their econ- omic sanctions, the National Jewish Community Rela- tions Advisory Committee still opposes that move as premature. "Not all the criteria in the anti-apartheid act passed by Congress had been fulfilled," explained NJCRAC spokesman Ken Bandler. TwO of NJCRAC'S consti- tuent organizations, the An- ti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Corn- mittee, have signalled their dissent from the umbrella organization's position. Mr. Bandler, while dis- agreeing with Mr. Kopelowitz's characteriza- tion of economic sanctions as counterproductive, never- theless agreed with the South African that sanctions are "not the issue today." The prospect of a black majority government led by the African National Con- gress does not in itself frighten Mr. Kopelowitz. The ANC has assured South Africa's Jewish com- munity that its day schools — which educate 60 percent of the, community's children — and old age homes will continue to operate, said Mr. Kopelowitz, who was head- master at a day school for 10 years before assuming his present post a year ago. Mr. Kopelowitz downplayed concern about anti-Israel, pro- Palestinian statements by ANC officials. He cited sup- portive statements from Mr. Mandela and argued that the ANC remains more a liberation movement than a structured political party with definite policy posi- tions. He dismissed anti-Semitic acts, such as the daubing of swastikas on synagogues, as "isolated incidents carried out by one meshuganer with a driver." The far-right groups, while anti-Semitic, are more preoccupied with their hatred of blacks and of the President F.W. de Klerk's reformist govern- ment, he said. The South African Jewish community, which Mr. Kopelowitz characterized as primarily "non-practicing Orthodox," has maintained a high profile, particular under the tenure of Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris, who came from England three years ago. For example, Rabbi Harris was invited to a conference on violence sponsored by Bishop Desmond Tutu. The Chief Rabbi's wife has taken a leading position in the Jewish community's effort to build bridges to the black majority. The reforms of the past couple of years have coincid- ed with. a drop in Jewish emigration which, in the past decade, has reduced the Jewish population of South Africa by an estimated 4,000 people. Most of the emigrants headed for Australia and Canada. Some, particularly young people, opted for aliyah. Mr. Kopelowitz attributed the drop in emigration to the fact that those able to relocate their assets