South Africa The peaceful end of apartheid in the early ‘90s has had a stunning effect on South African society. South African Jews have helped rebuild their country through their community’s involvement in social welfare projects and public support of African National Congress attempts at racial reconciliation; the end of apartheid symbolized an end of the white government’s institutional anti-Semitism. Still, many South African Jewish leaders have expressed their uncertainty at living in a new, uncharted nation in which the crime rate is rising and the income level for whites is decreasing. There has been a substantial transmigration in South African Jewry in the ‘90s; many South Africans who fled to Israel during the turbulent years have returned, but more and more of their children have chosen to migrate abroad to find jobs and higher education. The South African Jewish community is as uncertain as anyone else about the nation’s future. south
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