,ISRAEL
[President Nelson] Mandela be- declares, "It's never been easier
lieves in free enterprise, and this to be a Jew in South Africa." He
government has bent over back- notes that the country's chief rab-
ward to reassure whites who had bi, Cyril Harris, sat a few seats
fears."
from Mr. Mandela at the inau-
Their fears these days are not guration. The housing minister,
about black dictatorship, or po- Joe Slovo, is a Jew. So is Ronnie
litical reprisals against whites, Kasrils, the deputy defense min-
or expropriation of white proper- ister. Albie Sachs is a kind of min-
ty. Mr. Mandela's government is ister without portfolio. Mr.
democratic and well-intentioned, Mandela personally opened the
concerned with bringing the ba- Anne Frank Exhibit, now tour-
sics of a decent life to millions of ing the country.
illiterate and unemployed blacks,
When you ask Jews about
without looting the whites. The anti-Semitism, they complain
white — and Jewish — fear for about the Afrikaners, or the Mus-
now is over crime. The fear for lims, but not the blacks. And
the future is over how the black some even speak of a religious
masses, currently so hopeful, will "revival" among many young
react once they discover that the Jews, spurred by Lubavitch rab-
end of apartheid does not mean bis who came over from the Unit-
the immediate end to poverty and ed States and who are fast
all the misery that comes with it. gaining influence in the commu-
The government is making nity.
lofty promises. One is that a mil-
For all this, the Durban com-
lion new housing units will be puter consultant intends to move
constructed in the next five years. to Israel within the year. "The
Cynics say it's more likely to be problem here isn't racial or polit-
five housing units in the next mil- ical, it's economic," he says.
lion years.
`There's so much unemployment,
"The government can't deliver so much illiteracy, there's no
on all its promises, that's taken work ethic. You can't provide jobs
for granted," says Mr. Kopelowitz. for all these people, or housing.
And what happens when the This is not a viable country. I
crash comes, when reality sets want to live in a viable country."
in? What happens if the impov-
He speaks of how South
erished blacks, seeing that even African Jews and other rich
Nelson Mandela can't turn their whites cut themselves off from
lives around in months or even what's going on around them, liv-
years, resort in their despair to ing behind the walls of their
even greater crime and violence? homes and the rolled-up windows
How would the Jews react then? of their cars. "If you're willing to
This would be a tragic conse- live with blinkers on, you can
quence for the black and poor, have a great life here," he says.
Mr. Kopelowitz says, "but it A divorcee in Durban, living
wouldn't impact on the Jewish alone with her two grown sons
community."
long gone overseas, puts it even
Over a sumptuous dinner at a more simply: "They're living in a
Durban steak house, a success- fool's paradise." ❑
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Shanghai (JTA) — Reflecting an
effort to increase economic ties
with China, Israel recently
opened a consulate in this
bustling eastern Chinese city of
13 million.
"The government of Israel be-
lieves Shanghai is of very great
economic importance," said Press
Consul Avi Nir. "This is the main
reason Israel decided to open the
consulate general in Shanghai."
The newly established con-
sulate, Mr. Nir said, will focus on
economic matters, facilitating
commercial cooperation between
China and Israel.
Mr. Nir said it might be hard
for Israel to compete with big
firms because of the abundance
of foreign companies here.
Still, he said, "It will be easi-
er for us to compete in the fields
where we have unique knowl-
edge, such as telecommunications
and medical equipment. The Chi-
nese are really interested in these
fields right now."
The Shanghai consulate be-
comes the second Israeli diplo-
matic office in China after the
Israeli Embassy in Beijing. Israel
and China established diplomat-
ic relations in January 1992.
Moshe Ram is serving as con-
sul general.
Mr. Nir, who majored in Chi-
nese studies at the Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jerusalem, said that
maintaining Jewish life is diffi-
cult in Shanghai because there is
no Jewish community. He said
he knows of 20 to 30 other Jews,
including children, and that most
of them went out of town for the
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