Editor’s note: Books by and about Jewish participants in the anti-apartheid movement began rolling off the presses even before the final demise of white minority rule in April 1994 and continue to do so even today. In 2011, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) At a launch of this book in Johannesburg, the author Tony Leon said that, if nothing else, it would prove useful for throwing at an intruder. On the Contrary – Leading the Opposition in a
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 64, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2009) Over the past two decades Jack Bloom, a senior member of the DA caucus in the Gauteng Legislature, has acquired for himself a well-founded reputation as an astute, incisive thinker, one whose views are
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) The young Lorna Borkum, only child of a middle class, liberal-leaning Johannesburg Jewish couple, grew up with a keen sense of the injustices that were being inflicted on black South Africans. As a university student in
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 68, No. 1, Pesach 2013) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – generally referred to by the august title of ‘Mahatma’ (Great Soul) – was unquestionably one of the towering personalities of the last century, not only for the pivotal role he played
(Reviewer: David Saks, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012) Do we really need yet another ‘Struggle’ autobiography, some might ask? After all, since the demise of apartheid, and indeed before that, a host of memoirs by former activists in the anti-apartheid sphere have appeared,
(Author: Reuben Musiker, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011) The world of the printed book continues to grow exponentially even in a digital age, which is itself peaking. A printed book continues to be born every thirty seconds, while well over a million titles are
(Reviewer: Ralph Zulman, Vol. 68, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2013) The appointment of Tony Leon as South African Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay by President Zuma in 2009 came, politically speaking, as somewhat of a surprise. As leader of the opposition
