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Rest in Peace, Tata, from your many Jewish friends!
Over the coming weeks this website will explore the close relationship and partnership formed between SA Jewry and Madiba, with the ANC and their allies. Relationships that played (and continue to play) such a massive part in what has made the successes of SA. And that will hold an all-important key to what will keep making South Africa great going forwards.
ANT KATZ
If ever there was anyone deserving of titles such as “Friend of Jewry” and even “Honorary Jew” by association and by value beliefs – it was Nelson Mandela. He was part of the Jewish community from the time he arrived in Johannesburg.
His friends and supporters were Jewish and his personal and professional mentors were Jewish. It was members of the Jewish community who financed and organised Madiba’s political and revolutionary ideals. Who harboured him and his revolutionary ilk – from his earliest days, through the Struggle years, and into turning his post-freedom ideals and goals into tangible realities.
The writer had two remarkable private meetings with Madiba in the early Nineties and has published extensively on the relationship between the most remarkable man of our time and his relationship and friendship with SA Jewry.
Some of the related stories published digitally by the writer over the past five years include:
Stories published on SAJR Online
- 20/11/2013: Jews should get back into South African politics
- 02/12/2013: Ossendryver’s classic makes Madiba museum
- 18/11/2013: 60% of white treason trialists were Jewish
Stories published on MyShtetl
- 17/07/2013: Happy Birthday Tata Madiba
- 17/07/2013: Who has pics & vids with Madiba?
- 15/07/2013: Get well soon, Madiba, say Our Parents’ Home residents
- 10/07/2013: Challah of love for Tata Madiba
- 03/07/2013: Chief Rabbi’s Prayer for Madiba
- 30/06/2013: “Asimbonanga Mandela”
- 30/06/2013: Mandela family’s message to SA Jews
- 15/07/2012: Bet David does Madiba proud!
- 20/09/2011: Zev: Bibi not a Mandela or De Klerk
- 23/08/2011: Craig Joseph’s Mandela memory
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27/07/2011: We’re proud of our “rogues’ gallery”!
24/07/2011: Madiba’s “first white friend” to be laid to rest this morning - 22/07/2011: Board’s book on Madiba & SA Jewry
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19/07/2011: Madiba shares birthday with us
- 10/082011: Jewish Memories of Mandela – By NICHOLAS WOLPE
- 28/06/2011: Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba
Moses Kestenbaum ODA
December 6, 2013 at 12:25 am
‘Mandela Rest in peace , we mourn with the jewish community for the fallen, we join you in your grief.’
Alison Weston
December 6, 2013 at 4:47 pm
‘Given the enormous support SA Jewry gave to those in the struggle I find it reprehensible that the current SA government takes the anti-Semitic/anti-Israel stance it does’