Voices
A trip down Eastern Cape memory lane
The article in the Jewish Report of May 5, “Jewish life in small Eastern Cape towns”, prompted memories of my late father, Reverend Moses David Klaff.
Sheila Meyerowitz ( née Klaff ), Johannesburg
He assisted in the mayoral services in Queenstown for Mr M Paul on the two occasions that the latter was inducted as mayor- in 1954 and 1955. Mr Paul was the owner of a hotel in Queenstown.
My father also assisted at the Civic Divine Service held in Queenstown on Sunday, March 3, 1957.
Our cousins – Morris and Nettie Shapiro – lived in King William’s Town (another small town in the Eastern Cape) and ran a successful textile company from the mid-1920s – King Clothing Manufacturers.
Morris semi-retired in 1962 and after his wife’s death in 1969, lived with his daughter, Toonie, in East London. He was still active in various projects until his death in 1991.