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African Paradise?

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Financially and politically flourishing, , Jews also find
fear, with all the trappings, in the new South Africa.

LARRY DERFNER FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

supplement for
single room $31

ut Shabbos," says the el-
derly Jewish man, walk-
ing briskly down the
passageway of his apart-
ment building in Killarney, one
of the wealthier— and most Jew-
ish — districts in this South
African city. The gentleman likes
to take his constitutional at the
end of the day, but he's afraid to
walk around outside after dark.
So on this Friday evening, as on
every evening, he is padding up
and down the hallways, safe
among his white neighbors.
In the rich, heavily Jewish
northern suburbs of Johannes-
burg, it's hard to judge the ar-
chitecture of the'spacious houses
— every one is obscured by a high
stone wall, usually topped by
barbed wire, iron spikes or an
electrified fence.

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Dan Panorama Tel Aviv - Dan Panorama Haifa
Dan Pearl Jerusalem - Dan Caesarea*

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combination of minimum seven nights

Above rates valid: November 13, 1994 - February 28, 1995

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walled ghetto. In Johannesburg,
where most of the Jews live, peo-
ple drive with their doors locked,
from home to work, to visit with
friends or family, to the shopping
centers, and back. In the new
South Africa as in the old, the
fear of black violent crime keeps
them largely off the streets.
Within their constricted
boundaries, they live well. Their
houses and lawns are huge, all
their amenities are first-rate,
their black maids, servants and
gardeners remain obsequious,
still living in servants quarters
and calling their employers
"madam" and "boss." (Things are
changing, though; the black help
is about to unionize.)
A Jewish housewife in Sand-
ton, the Beverly Hills of South
Africa, ticks off the friends who

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single room $60

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DAN HOTELS in superior grade rooms for minimum seven nights

Dan Tel Aviv - Dan Carmel Haifa - Dan Accadia Herzliya

Above rates valid: Nov. 13-Dec. 21, 1994 and Jan. 06-Feb. 28, 1995

All rates are in US$, per person, per night in double room,

including Israeli breakfast & subject to 15% service charge.

Nelson Mandela smiles during victory celebrations in South Africa.

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A 49-year-oid Jewish op-
tometrist from one of those sub-
urbs has taken to carrying a gun,
ever since one of the notoriously
reckless, often criminal "black
taxis" tried to run him off the
road. "Anybody tries that again,
I'll blow him away, if he doesn't
kill me first," he says. Asked if
he's thought about leaving South
Africa, the optometrist replies: "If
my professional qualifications
were recognized abroad, I'd be
gone. But I'm going to do every-
thing I can to see that my chil-
dren leave this country by the
time they're grown."
During a recent trip to South
Africa, I didn't find a single Jew
among the dozens I talked to who
wasn't relieved that apartheid
was finished, who didn't think
it was right that blacks should be
leading the country. And I didn't
find a single Jew who doesn't still
live in fear.
For South Africa's 100,000-
plus Jews, as for all the whites in
the cities, home is a family-sized,

moved before the April elections
to Los Angeles, to Toronto, to
Ra'anana in Israel, and have
since returned. "It's a very afflu-
ent lifestyle here, and it's hard for
them to leave it," she says. "Be-
fore the elections they thought
there was going to be chaos here,
but it hasn't happened. Slowly
but surely they're trickling back."
The general theory is that all
the Jews who might have left
South Africa already have done
so. Seymour Kopelowitz, nation-
al director of the Jewish Board of
Deputies, says that a few thou-
sand left the country in the last
couple of years — mainly to Aus-
tralia, Canada, New Zealand and
the United States, with a small
minority going to Israel. He con-
firms that there is the beginning
of a trend to come home —
among those Jews who had diffi-
culties finding their feet abroad.
As for the Jews who stayed,
Mr. Kopelowitz says, "I think
their attitude is more positive
than it's been in a long time.

