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CTL, Thank you for the personal reply. My sister was in SA this past summer after not being there since 94. I saw pictures of Yeoville, Observatory and the areas where I grew up. And it is so sad. You can’t argue that democracy shouldn’t have happened, but there was a certain measure of First World-ness that went when the ANC took over. (ve’hamayvin yavin.) Would it have been different if apartheid hadn’t happened? We’ll never know.
Having said that, Yiddishkeit is flourishing. The baal teshuva movement there is the most successful in the world. I don’t know if the Shabbos Project could have started so successfully anywhere else. There is almost no reform or conservative there. The community in Johannesburg has moved north, and in Cape Town has moved to Sea Point and Torah is growing on the tip of Africa.