Letter from a Jewish Rabbi born in Rhodesia about South Africa, Jewry and wonderful Nelson Mandela

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[Here you can see what typical filth these Jews are. They don't care about the very country they were born in. Notice how many times the Jew moved. Then he was told that South Africa would be good for the Jews. Notice how he loves Nelson Mandela the communist terrorist and enemy of the Whites. This is so typical from these two-faced Jews. Jan]

Letter from a Rabbi in South Africa (translated from Hebrew)

"I was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, in 1978. At that time, Ian Smith was the president of Rhodesia and the white rule in this country, which borders South Africa, was about to disappear"

When Nelson Mandela came to power we expected attacks, a civil war, a bloodbath! The local papers predicted them. The Afrikaans Party would never allow the blacks to take over so smoothly, we worried. Will South Africa now be like Rhodesia across the border?

Throughout this period of concern and apprehension, there was one strong voice that consistently reassured South African jewry that all would be well.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Rabbi Uriel Wigler, Manhattan, New York
Johannesburg, South Africa

It was the last night of Hanukkah, December 26, 1992.

We lit the last Hanukkah candle and my father took me to the airport. During the trip he told me "Always remember that on the 8th of Hanukkah you left South Africa to start a new life in Israel". It was the night I emigrated from South Africa.

I was the first of our family to emigrate. The plan was for the rest of the family to join shortly. Just four weeks earlier my mother had been brutally attacked in our home on a Saturday morning. My parents decided that enough was enough, that we were all leaving the country. […]

In fact, the following year, Rhodesia had a new president, a black man named Abel Mizoruwa, and the country’s name was changed to Zimbabwe. Soon after, in 1980, Robert Mugabe came to power and his infamous rule continues to this day.

My father, the rabbi of Bulawayo, fled Rhodesia at the end of 1978 along with most of the Jews in the country, due to the unrest and instability.

Unfortunately, Zimbabwe did not recover and the "Grain Barn of Africa" gradually crumbled. (Interestingly, I am the only Chabad rabbi in the world today who was born in Rhodesia!)

At this point, my father was offered the opportunity to serve the Jewish community in New Zealand or South Africa.

He asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneursahn ztzel, and the Rebbe told him to go to South Africa. So, my brother and I grew up in South Africa, a country that, tragically, adopted a policy of racial discrimination against its black citizens, but was a haven of safety and security for the jews in her.

I clearly remember the apartheid state of the 1980s. I remember the public buses marked, "for whites only". I remember the ads in the park saying, "Whites only". I even remember the big signs outside public toilets announcing "Whites Only".

Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. South Africa embarks on a new path under the inspired leadership of Willem de Klerk. The local newspapers described the fear that whites and blacks alike had. One question on everyone’s lips, "What will happen?"
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And so, I left South Africa on the 26th day of December 1992.

But then Nelson Mandela came to power as the country’s first democratically elected leader.

Throughout this period of concern and apprehension, there was one strong voice that consistently reassured South African Jewry that there was nothing to fear, that everything would be fine.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe was determined in his opinion. He told many people, including my father, that South Africa would be a good place for the Jewish community, until the coming of the Messiah.

Indeed, Nelson Mandela was privileged to be the conduit for the Rebbe’s blessing. Mandela miraculously led South Africa through an impossible change, and despite all the prophets of rage, the "Rainbow Nation" was born in the spirit of peace and reconciliation. The expected bloodshed and destruction did not occur – just as the Rebbe predicted.

I think we South Africans really realized that we had experienced a modern miracle when, during the 1995 Rugby World Cup final involving South Africa, 100,000 people chanted "Nelson, Nelson!" as he appeared on the field to present the trophy to the South African captain.

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He embraced all South Africans, regardless of race or affiliation, in a spirit of peace, understanding and forgiveness. This is one of the lessons we can learn from this great man.

I moved back to South Africa only three months after leaving it. In time, my mother agreed to calm down from her traumatic attack and my parents decided to continue living there. […]

Many people see my parents as crazy for agreeing to live there after such a difficult experience. But the Rebbe gave the Jews of South Africa a very unique blessing – that it would be a good place for the Jews until the coming of the Messiah and Mandela served as a catalyst that brought the blessing to fruition. Madiba (honorary nickname for Mandela) was the catalyst!

Thank you, Nelson Mandela. Rest in peace

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617151313/http://www.shturem.net/index.php?section=news&id=68260

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