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4301 Orchard lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
851-3770

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So. African Jews
Face Difficult Time

Washington (JTA) — Jews in
South Africa are facing a
difficult decade as their
country goes through the
wrenching changes needed
to push aside the remnants
of the apartheid system and
move toward democracy.
This sentiment was ex-
pressed by Helen Lieber-
man, a South African grass-
roots activist who has spent
decades combatting the
effects of apartheid in her
country.
In an interview with the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
on a visit here, Ms. Lieber-
man discussed the situation
confronting South African
Jews, as well as her own
work in creating develop-
ment projects for South
Africa's black majority.
Ms. Lieberman is on a two-
month tour of the United
States sponsored by the
American Jewish Com-
mittee, and is actively in-
volved in the South African
Jewish community.
Currently, various factions
in the constellation of South
African political groups are
participating in negotiations
designed to shape a future
non-racial South African
democracy.
But the turmoil associated
with the change, combined
with the lingering economic
effects of international sanc-
tions slapped on South
Africa by the United States
and others in the 1980s, has
resulted in waves of Jews
and other South Africans
leaving the country.
Although the sanctions are
gradually being lifted as
South Africa moves away
from apartheid, Ms. Lieber-
man said that "the next 10
years will be very difficult"
for South African Jews.
"They're becoming an ag-
ing community," Ms.
Lieberman said.
Many younger Jews have
emigrated in recent years to
the United States, England
or Australia, leaving their
elderly parents behind.
While Ms. Lieberman
pointed out that it is not only
the Jewish community that
is leaving South Africa, she
acknowledged that Jews
"have always been a mobile
community.
"When things aren't good,
they go elsewhere," she said.
Of South Africa's total
population of about 40 mill-
ion, Ms. Lieberman said,
only about 80,000 to 100,000

are Jewish.
South African Jews have
tended over the years to be
more liberal than most
white South Africans, sup-
porting political parties on
the more progressive side of
the spectrum.
Longtime former member
of Parliament Helen Suz-
man, who is Jewish, served
for much of her career as the
lone opposition member rep-
resenting the Progressive
Federal Party, a liberal
alternative to the ruling Na-
tional Party.
"Jewish people have been
very strong in individual
capacities" working against
apartheid, Ms. Lieberman
said.
She herself has served as
such an example in her own
work.
Beginning with her own
personal funds, and later
raising money from the Jew-
ish community and other
organizations, Ms. Lieber-
man has, over the past 25

The sanctions are
gradully being
lifted as South
Africa moves away
from apartheid.

years, helped to create a
network of social service pro-
jects. designed to train
workers and educate chil-
dren in South Africa's sorely
underdeveloped black
townships.
When she first began
visiting the townships out-
side Cape Town in the 1960s
— which was an illegal thing
to do at that time — Ms.
Lieberman's friends thought
she was "mad;" and would
be murdered.
But Ms. Lieberman
persevered and has organiz-
ed thousands of black
township residents into pro-
grams they now run them-
selves.
The programs include old
age centers, day care
centers, job training pro-
grams for the disabled and
education projects.
In 1992, Ms. Lieberman
and her colleagues formed
an umbrella group called
Ikamva Labantu, or "Future
of Our People/Nation," to

