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Thank you my saviour! The presence of mind of a Magen Security guard, “reading” the suspicious behaviour of a band of would-be hijackers to a tee, saved the life - or possibly serious injury - of an elderly resident of Elphin Lodge, Helen Sher, recently. See story on page 2

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Shabbat Times Parshat Chukat June 14 / 6 Tammuz Real communication June 15 / 7 Tammuz Effective communication is “Dear Mr. Rabbi. We know you In this week’s Torah reading 17:05 17:57 Johannesburg central to human identity and like...” the Jewish people lack water 17:26 18:21 Cape Town our relationships. Jewish sources How can you know what I like and complain to Moshe. He 16:45 17:38 Durban even define the human being if you don’t even know my name? famously strikes a rock, which 17:06 17:59 Bloemfontein Rabbi Pesach Fishman 16:57 17:52 Port Elizabeth as a midaber “a speaker”, as the This automated response is at first produces a trickle of Northcliff Hebrew 16:50 17:44 East London ability to express ourselves in indicative of the general com- water and after striking it a Congregation an articulate manner is a crucial munication style today that is second time, it produces a World News in Brief trait that distinguishes us from facilitated by technology. torrent. However, that would not the animal kingdom. Real human communication is Many explanations have been have been real communication, Stay away from Today, technology has made the ability to enter the world of given as to precisely what the especially for Moshe the master communication so much easier. the other person, to understand mistake of Moshe was (after all, communicator. A message in the Golan, US Embassy Within seconds, we can connect them, to relate to their needs and he did bring water to the Jews), manner of “To Whom It May with thousands of people across to address them. The purpose of but foremost among these is the Concern” would never suffice. in Israel warns the globe via e-mail and Skype. We human expression is not just to simple point that G-d asked him When Moshe spoke, the message JERUSALEM - The US Embassy in can talk to loved ones, have meet- speak our own minds and broad- to speak to the rock and instead had to be tailored to the individ- Tel Aviv has issued a security warn- ings and attend conferences with cast messages. he struck it (as he once has ual, even if were only to a rock. ing advising US citizens to defer people wherever they might be. The function of our communi- been commanded to do decades Certainly when we speak to travel to the Golan Heights because Yet, notwithstanding these op- cation is to be less absorbed in earlier). people the same should apply. of the civil war in Syria. portunities, relationships seem our own existence and to relate The Medrash adds that Moshe The next time you have to say Dated June 6 but e-mailed on to be weakening, not getting more to the world of the listener. could not identify which rock he something, ask yourself: Is this Monday to US citizens in Israel, the stronger. There are so many mar- When we express ourselves in a was meant to speak to (it was the an automated message from my advisory was issued due to “fighting riages in trouble, dysfunctional way that the other person feels rock that had previously been in world or is it something that between Syrian opposition forces families and an abundance of that we have understood them Miriam’s water-producing well), will truly speak to the person I and the Syrian military in the cen- misunderstandings and conflict. and empathised with them our as it had blended in with the sur- am communicating with? Am I tral portion of the Disengagement Perhaps modern communica- communication will be effective. rounding rocks. focussed on getting my message Zone in the Golan Heights near the tion is not as successful as we People can do that. Machines, But why didn’t Moshe speak to out there, or ensuring that these Syrian town of Qunaitra.” sometimes portray it? even the most cutting-edge, all the rocks, and say something thoughts are actually heard? Am “US citizens are advised to defer Consider a recent e-mail I cannot and never will be able to along the lines of: “Whichever I just talking or am I communi- non-essential travel to and within received, and I am sure you have relate to and establish a rapport rock is the one meant to produce cating? the Golan Heights,” it said. (JTA) received similar ones: with a person. water, please do so now!”? Shabbat Shalom!

From page 1 Alert Cornwell Dube DL Link helps to make the saves Helen Sher’s life cancer journey bearable SHIRA DRUION SHARON AKUM Dube acted very quickly and man- aged to wrestle down one of the Cancer is a tortuous disease Dovid Ginsberg, project manager of men who was leaning into the car, to suffer, but organisations like Magen Security is full of praise for assaulting Sher. He put the man into DL Link allow the journey to be Cornwell Dube who was on duty at an arm lock, put a boot on the sus- one that is filled with nurturing, Matrix Computers in Athol Street, pect’s neck and took out his firearm, compassion and care. Not only do opposite the Balfour Park Shopping warning the suspect not to try any patients themselves reap tremen- Centre on May 20, when he picked up funny business, before he arrested dous benefits from their relation- “the suspicious body language” of two him. The other two managed to get ships with the volunteers and males on the opposite side of Athol away, even though CAP and the SAPS programmes, but the ripple effects Street, at 09:00 that morning. had promptly reacted to Dube’s panic ensure that the families of the pa- “From their body language I button. tients are also supported through realised they were going to commit “I owe my life to Cornwell; he saved the recovery process. Liel Egdes; Aviva Egdes; and Netanya Egdes. a crime,” Dube, who has worked for me,” said a grateful Sher. With a gun Sunday morning was one such Magen Securities for 19 years, told to her head, she thought she might event, where volunteers and pa- another and a resonance of shared friends added a pink stripe to their Jewish Report. be shot, but she didn’t panic. She tients were treated to a spa day to pain seemed to echo through the hair. With the help of her 11-year- He followed the two to a parking has been for counseling since, but all rejuvenate body and soul. home of Robbie and Shireen Fihrer old daughter, Liel, the trend spread lot outside the optometrist located she seems to have suffered from the “In the world of cancer treat- who generously made their home like wildfire and to date over R30 next to Matrix Computers and saw frightening ordeal is a bruised arm ment, patients live in a continu- available for the morning. 000 has been raised, with over 250 an elderly woman being assaulted in and shoulder as the one suspect tried ous loop of prodding, injections The morning also acted as a extensions sold in Johannesburg the passenger seat of her car. The two to pull her from her car. and submission” says Michelle “PINK Strip” fundraiser, where and 50 more in Israel. suspicious-looking males plus a third Sher is most grateful to Cornwell Goodman, director and founder of women and men from all walks of “I am in awe and inspired by one, accosted 86-year-old Sher as she who acted so quickly to rescue her. DL Link. “What a treat to have a life came out to support DL Link by how we all extended ourselves!” was getting out of her car for an ap- Sher is also full of praise for Gins- pampering day and to be so well purchasing a pink hair extension says Egdes, “The energy in Sher- pointment at the optometrist. berg who she says regularly phoned deservedly spoilt!” for R100. een’s home was dignified, positive Two of the suspects had already her to find out if she was alright. While enjoying manicures and Two months ago, DL Link partici- and gracious. The morning was stolen Sher’s watch and wedding ring Dube has been rewarded by Magen pedicures, reflexology, Indian head pant Aviva Egdes was diagnosed a testimony to the exceptional and the third one was going for her Security with a certificate of excel- massages and a delicious break- with breast cancer and in solidarity chesed that is so reflective of our handbag as he held a gun to her head. lence and a bonus. fast, patients networked with one with her, her immediate group of community.”

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Ages: Kiddie Camp: 3 & 4 Year old Main Camp: 5 – 12 Year old Limited space don’t delay registration! 14 – 21 June 2013 News SA JEWISH REPORT 3 SA-born Stanley Bergman Fransman cocks a snook elected president of AJC at mediation efforts A mediation meeting between Deputy Minister DAVID SAKS of International Relations Marius Fransman (pictured) and the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Former South African Stanley Berg- (SAJBD) failed to take place when the Deputy man became the first Jewish leader Minister informed the SA Human Rights Com- not born in the United States to be Photo supplied mission (SAHRC) that he would not be attending elected president of the American after all, the SAJBD said in a media release Jewish Committee (AJC). His elec- under the name of SAJBD National Director tion was confirmed at last week’s AJC Wendy Kahn. Global Forum in Washington DC. The meeting, the date of which had been A large contingent of South African mutually agreed upon a month before, was scheduled to take place under the Jewish leaders attended the event, auspices of the SAHRC last Friday, but when the SAJBD representatives arrived, including SAJBD President Zev Kren- they were informed not only that Fransman would not be attending, but that he gel, National Director Wendy Kahn Stanley Bergman; Wendy Kahn; Zev Krengel; Ebrahim Rasool; Johnny had no interest in participating in any future mediation process. and Cape Executive Director David Copelyn; and Marion Bergman. “Earlier this year, the SAJBD lodged a formal complaint with the SAHRC against Jacobson. During their stay, they Speaking at a breakfast session for David Jacobson joined Rabbi Ron Fransman on account of several demeaning and inflammatory remarks he had were also hosted to a dinner by South South African participants, focusing Hendler, representing the Chief African Ambassador to Washington, on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanc- Rabbi’s Office, in participating in an made about the Jewish community and its leadership. Ebrahim Rasool. tions (BDS) movement against Israel, interfaith dialogue between Jewish “Specifically, the SAJBD found it completely unacceptable that Fransman had Bergman and his wife Marion, im- Krengel emphasized the severity of and Muslim leaders from the US, Aus- accused it of being “un-South African”, unpatriotic and of driving an interest migrated to the United States in 1976 the threat to isolate Israel in the same tralia, South Africa, and New Zealand. outside of the national interest on behalf of a foreign country. and since that time they have been manner in which apartheid South The event was held under the “These insulting remarks were made in response to the Board’s objecting to extensively involved in supporting Africa had been isolated. joint auspices of the Foundation for the fact that on February 26, Fransman had alleged on a Muslim radio station that cultural, education, human rights and The Diaspora, with US Jewry neces- Ethnic Understanding, headed by Jewish businessmen were unfairly benefitting at the expense of Muslims in the health and welfare initiatives. sarily taking a leading role by virtue Rabbi Marc Schneier and the Islamic Western Cape. Their involvement with the AJC of its numerical strength, needed Society of North America. Rabbi Sch- “In the first instance, Fransman made public remarks likely to stir up ill feeling commenced in 2001, and included co- to continually fight to defend the neier said that the greatest challenge and mistrust between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Cape Town. He next founding the AJC Africa Institute five legitimacy of the Jewish homeland as his organisation had encountered accused the SAJBD of being unpatriotic, simply for seeking to fulfil its mandate to years later. Bergman is chairman of a matter of broad principle. when it came to promoting Jewish- uphold the constitutionally protected civil liberties of the Jewish community. the board and CEO of Henry Schein, When it came to commenting on Muslim dialogue, was in South “Now, he has compounded his insulting behaviour still further. His eleventh- Inc, a Fortune 500® Company. the nitty-gritty of Israeli policy, it was Africa, where the Middle East issue hour withdrawal from a meeting he had previously agreed to attend, together with Among the world leaders who ad- up to Israel itself to do so. Realistical- rather than relations on the ground his declaring himself to be uninterested in any further mediation by the SAHRC, dressed the conference were US Secre- ly, the advance of the BDS movement had driven a wedge between the two sends a clear message to South African Jewry and minority communities in gen- tary of State John Kerry and former could only be slowed down; to halt it communities. eral that he is disdainful of their concerns and has little respect for the constitu- Israel Deputy Prime Minister Tzipi altogether, meaningful progress in Rasool, who hosted participants tional processes that have been put in place to protect their rights. Livni. Both stressed how crucial it was negotiations towards a final settle- at his home, said that both com- “In light of Deputy Minister Fransman’s refusal to participate in any construc- for Israel to make the “two-state solu- ment between Israelis and Palestin- munities needed to “divest from the tion” a reality if Israel was to remain ians was needed. exclusive victimhood” if they wished tive process of engagement that might resolve the dispute, the SAHRC’s investi- both Jewish and democratic. Following the AJC Global Forum, to build bridges. gation into the SAJBD’s complaint against him will now be taken further.” 24 SA SA J JEWISHEWISH R REPORTEPORT News 01 14- 08 – 21 June June 2012 2013 Child abuse has become a scourge in the Jewish community

SHIRA DRUION perpetrated against males, whereas scared of how a parent may react. females who are abused, are likely “Kids may also not understand Abuse was not a prevalent issue in to stay victims. what is actually going on, or may be the Jewish community 25 years ago, “So the cycle very often repeats afraid ‘to tell a secret’. Sometimes but today the sexual perversion in itself and the abuse becomes a child wants to tell, but they block the media was infecting our society entrenched. One perpetrator can it out, because it is too much to on a minute to minute basis and damage hundreds of victims who handle. Parents should be aware of depraved acts of abuse were being in turn damage hundreds and so any out of character behaviour, such perpetrated more and more. the abuse proliferates, mutating to as changes in the child’s sleeping This was said by Debbie Gross cause horrifying statistics. patterns, social behaviour, sudden (pictured), a world-renowned expert “Abuse has become an epidemic fears, etc. on women and child abuse, brought in our society; 97 per cent of the “If a child comes to a parent to to South Africa as part of the Chev- time, abuse is perpetrated by males tell them that he/she has been rah Kadisha and Sydenham Shul’s with victims being 80 per cent abused, parents should tell the child CAJE’s “Enrich Your Life” series of females, 20 per cent male.” that it was the correct thing to do lectures. She added: “In the religious to tell mommy/daddy; that they Koleinu SA, a support service for world the victim stats differ with believe him/her; that they are not victims of sexual abuse in the Jew- 60 per cent female and 40 per cent bad or to blame. ish community, recently spearhead- male. This may be due to living in “A parent should also reassure a ed its launch by bringing out Gross. segregated societies where a mother child that they will do everything Gross, who sets out to educate is not around to protect her young possible to keep them safe and the community about women and boys and perpetrators may find should not make false promises child abuse and the preventive it the perfect breeding ground to about keeping it confidential when measures that need to be in place to cause harm to young males. in fact the parent knows that he or address this issue. Gross, a devel- “Abuse can be violent or gentle, she will take the child to a thera- opmental psychologist, is also the but either way, the effects are very pist, as this causes the child to feel founder and director of the Crisis of The Knesset’s committee for the infecting our society on a minute- damaging, particularly when it is betrayed by the one person he/she Centre for Religious Women in Je- status of women. to-minute basis and depraved acts long-term abuse with the victim trusts.” rusalem. She’s also a member of the “Twenty five years ago, abuse was of abuse are being perpetrated more being subjected to years of deprav- Jerusalem advisory board against not a prevalent issue in our com- and more. It’s also more widespread ity. It is devastating to hear about • Victims of sexual abuse may contact family violence, is on the board of munity. Years ago, abuse happened, because the victims of abuse more victims who have had to suffer in Koleinu: [email protected]. All directors of The Association of Rape but far less than today. Today, the often than not are likely to become silence because they are afraid of correspondence will be treated with Centres in Israel and is a member sexual perversion in the media is abusers, particularly when abuse is what the perpetrator may do, or are the utmost confidentiality.

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City Press man failed to attend a mediation meeting in Dubai last August. He suspects the airline WINTER SALE www.citypress.co.za with the SA Jewish Board of Deputies after knew of the trouble in Dubai, but it gave him “ANC slams ruling on Helen Suzman statement” a comment he made... He told News 24: the all-clear to fly regardless. Up to “I don’t believe what I said is wrong… I’m 50% reduction on A ruling in the Western Cape legislature that prepared to meet them [the Board] to engage Dispatch Online (East London) saw ANC MPL Max Ozinsky ordered out of about real human issues in a previously www.dispatch.co.za skirts, tops, slax the chamber for refusing to retract a state- disadvantaged community.” “Leon urges government and DA to ‘be civilised’” and jackets. ment in which he reportedly said: “Helen Suzman had wanted to kill us,” is outra- Sunday Times Former Democratic Alliance parliamentary Unique, wonderful geous, according to ANC chief whip Mathole www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes leader Tony Leon has called for disagree- quality and cut. Motshekga. Karabus: Did airline play role in arrest? ments and engagements between the rul- ing ANC and his former party to be more News 24 The 78-year-old paediatric oncologist Cyril civilised. This comes as scenes were shown Open Mon – Fri 9:00 – 16:00 www.news24.com Karabus who was held in the United Arab recently of faeces and sewerage being thrown 9 Grafton Avenue, Craighall Park. “Fransman snubs SAHRC meeting” Emirates for nine months on erroneous at Western Cape premier Helen Zille’s con- (011) 447-0337 charges of manslaughter and fraud, holds voy, allegedly by ANC Youth League mem- ANC Western Cape Chaiman Marius Frans- Emirates Airline responsible for his arrest bers.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY. 6 SA JEWISH REPORT Opinion and Analysis 01 14- 08 – 21 June June 2012 2013 Jewishsouth african Report S African Muslims and Point-scoring with the dangerous ethnic card Jews, united against

When a senior ANC politician and government official slanders South African Jews, then effectively tells them to go and jump in the lake when they try to confront him, apartheid, are now split we are heading down a dangerous slope. Deputy Minister of the Department of International Delegations of Jews and Muslims meet in Washington to bridge differences Relations and Co-operation Marius Fransman, on Voice of the Cape radio station questioned the patriotism of SA NATHAN GUTTMAN Like other activists, Rasool lamented the break in Mus- Jews, accusing them of being un-South African and pur- NEW YORK lim-Jewish co-operation once South Africa transitioned suing interests outside the national interest. beyond its racist past. This is cynical political point-scoring without regard to Partnership between Jews and Muslims in South Africa “We all co-operated in fighting apartheid. Our humanity the damage he can do in a country with such a history of flourished when both communities joined forces in the forced us to reach our common values,” he said, “but as racial and ethnic division. It is as if he is doing his utmost struggle to end the apartheid regime. But as the common soon as that evil was pushed down, we allowed ourselves to inject Middle East realities into our political scene. cause uniting them was resolved in the early 1990s, Jews to retreat to the issue of Israel-Palestine.” Jewish and Muslim leaders, especially in the Western and Muslims, both minorities in South Africa, grew apart Speaking to two dozen activists gathered at his home, Cape, have over the years built up a good relationship. and allowed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to become a Rasool said that in order to build bridges, both communi- Both groups are here to stay. However, being South Af- wedge issue and a source of ongoing tension. ties needed to “divest from the exclusive victimhood”. He rican does not mean Jews cannot have other interests. Now, leaders of the two communities in Washington quoted South African leader Nelson Mandela, who “knew Jewish history encompasses all corners of the world as tried to find ways, thousands of kilometres away from that victims can’t make peace”. part of the fabric of numerous societies - as they are in their homeland, to rebuild the bridges. In practical terms, organisers hope the short trip to South Africa. Greek South Africans are not called un- “The greatest challenge we’ve encountered is South Af- Washington can inspire South African Jews and Muslims South African for celebrating Greece’s national holiday; rica,” said Rabbi Marc Schneier, who is the founder and to follow some of the models set in the United States the Chinese New Year is marked with colour and enthu- president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, for interfaith dialogue, including the idea of twinning siasm. the organisation that put together the joint mission of synagogues and mosques, the flagship programme of the What is Fransman’s agenda? He is part of an ANC cam- Muslim and Jewish leaders to the United States. Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. paign to wrest the Western Cape by all means from DA This challenge, which he sees as being more difficult control, no matter what the “collateral”. It sticks in their than in other parts of the world in which the group has craw that this is the one province they don’t control. been trying to promote interfaith dialogue, is made up The SAJBD’s response to Fransman was dignified, re- of a community of 70 000 Jews and a Muslim population The reason, leaders of both communities agree, has to fraining from a public slanging match and instead turn- 10 times its size, both of which have been far behind the do more with the Middle East than with relations on the ing to the SA Human Rights Commission to mediate, United States in terms of interfaith co-operation. ground in Africa. which it was perfectly willing to do. Yet his political cyni- The reason, leaders of both communities agree, has to cism shone through when, after agreeing to mediation, do more with the Middle East than with relations on the he not only failed to turn up, but said he would not par- ground in Africa. The organisation has long sought to spread the idea of ticipate at all (see story on page 3). “Obviously, Israel is a huge issue,” said Rabbi Ron Hend- interfaith relations beyond the United States and has al- The government’s failure to repudiate his remarks ler, who represented South Africa’s chief rabbi in the mis- ready conducted programmes in Europe and Latin Amer- shows a worrying disregard for ethnic sensitivities in a sion to Washington. “Many in the Muslim community feel ica. This mission, which alongside delegates from South country where memories of apartheid injustices still very, very strongly about the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and Africa also included representatives from Australia and abound. And unfortunately, Fransman’s finger-pointing many in the Jewish community are very Zionist.” New Zealand, is the first attempt to reach out to Jews and at Jews has an undertone of accusations against whites – Sitting around a breakfast table at the residence of Muslims in the Southern Hemisphere. all to gain the coloured community’s votes in a province Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to the United “South Africa is such a deeply prejudiced society,” said where they constitute the majority of the electorate. States and one of the country’s leading Muslim activists, David Jacobson, executive director of the South African Trying to curry favour with an ethnic group in a fair po- leaders of the two communities expressed their eagerness Jewish Board of Deputies in the Cape. But it is this deep litical contest is perfectly legitimate if the effort is based to move closer. divide that gave participants hope that just as South Af- on sound policies to benefit that group. However, Frans- Rasool, who co-founded the Call of Islam, a Muslim or- rica overcame its racial tensions, it can build bridges be- man is playing the Middle East card by proxy through the ganisation formed to fight apartheid, told the Forward tween Jews and Muslims. Muslim identity of many Western Cape coloureds. that he would like to see the discussion about Jewish- “If we can do it in South Africa, we can be a beacon to The SAHRC was set up to help defuse racial tensions, Muslim relations begin not in the founding of the State the world,” Jacobson said. innuendoes and lies as a safety valve for society. It seems of Israel in 1948, but rather in 1492, when Christians ex- Fransman rejected mediation because he knows that if pelled Jews and Muslims from Spain, a place where both • This article first appeared in the Forward, New York, he participated, he would be reproached, which would be communities flourished together. June 8, 2013. politically embarrassing. As the ANC provincial leader in the Western Cape, this would discredit his party, showing the extent to which it will go to gain votes. If playing the volatile ethnic card is the level to which our politics has descended, it is a sad day. And if this is accepted as a norm, it is extremely dangerous. The question for South Africans going forward is how to conduct our politics to avoid raising the bitter ghosts of our racial past.

Reconciliation has not been completed by a long shot. BJ Holtgrewe Photo: There is still enmity and distrust and the last thing we need is someone in a leadership position stirring this pot. It is high time the government and ANC distanced themselves from Fransman’s baseless remarks. They should insist that the SAHRC be allowed to play its role. After all, what is Fransman trying to hide? Leadership is needed, lest this small sore turns into a festering wound. Praying for Madiba

At the time of going to press, the whole world waits with bated breath and fervent prayers for the recovery of former President Nelson Mandela, revered worldwide for his leadership and compas- sion. At the SA Jewish Report, too, he is in our prayers and hearts. We are sure we speak for all Jewish South Africans on this. Our thoughts go out to his family at this trying time. Delegates to the Mission of Muslim and Jewish Leaders from Southern Hemisphere Countries, meet with the Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, at the Embassy in Washington. 14 - 21 June 2013 Opinion and Analysis SA JEWISH REPORT 7 JNF role in forced removals under the loupe

As Victor Gordon last about Israel and the environment.” of the JNF is given to the Jewish for their scenic location and in Simply put, the idea is to make (www.jnf.org) people and only to them is the JNF many cases have been built on the Negev Jewish and ensure that week responded to Allan obligated. The JNF, as the owner of previously disturbed sites.[own the non-Jewish inhabitants live Horwitz’s letter on his All of the above is likely to be JNF land, does not have a duty to emphasis] http://www.jnf.co.za/ in manageable enclaves. If the true. But it also covers a more practise equality to all citizens of pages/project-negev.htm” state has its way, Al-Arakib will organisation Stop the sinister, hidden reality. the state.” be forested over by the JNF, and, JNF, we believe it is fair The JNF was established in These “previously disturbed with Umm al-Hiran, join the fate to allow Horwitz the right 1901 in order to acquire land To translate, the JNF owes loy- sites” are what are called “unrec- of around 500 Palestinian villages in historic Palestine to be held alty to me, as a South African Jew, ognised” Bedouin villages, such that have been wiped from the to reply. With this we will forever for exclusively Jewish use. but not to 20 per cent of Israel’s as Al Arakib and Umm al-Hiran. face of the “Jewish State” since close the correspondence This automatically means that the citizens who happen to be Arabs. Its occupants are among the 3 - 1947 (a process that started be- JNF aims to prevent a free market South African Jews of Lithuanian 40 000 Naqab Bedouins whom fore the state came into being in unless it takes the debate in land sales that would result in origin have more right to land Israel is forcefully relocating to 1948). Many of these villages now further. – Editor land being sold or leased to non- in Israel, than Palestinians who government-approved designated lie buried beneath Jewish settle- Jews. have been there since the time of townships in terms of Israel’s ments and JNF recreation parks ALLAN HORWITZ Since 1953 the JNF has operat- Saladin. Prawer Plan. This will devastate and forests. ed as a part of the State. Directly, Secondly, how does JNF’s role livelihoods, sever them from their Although we cannot stop Victor Gordon writes that the it controls some 13 per cent of the play out in the Negev? land, destroy ancestral lifestyles, people from choosing to donate matter of the Bedouins is not a land. And, as a parastatal or- Again, in JNF’s words: and corrode at their communal to organisations like the JNF, we simple one for discussion in a ganisation, it appoints nearly half identity and sense of belonging. feel that it is important that they matter of a few lines and that at of the board of the Israel Land “Over the next five years, our The initiative is part and parcel know the full truth about what best our comments are “simplistic Authority (ILA). goal is to bring 250 000 new of Israel’s project to “Judaise” the such an organisation is involved and unsubstantiated”. Let us then The ILA then manages both residents to the Negev. And over Negev in terms of which it will in, and understand that they are go into the details. the JNF’s 13 per cent and an the next ten years, Blueprint Negev settle 250 000 Jews in the area contributing to the displacement Firstly, who is the JNF? Let us additional 80 per cent of all land will bring over 500 000 people to under a scheme known as the of thousands of people from areas see how they describe themselves: in the State of Israel. The JNF 100 000 housing sites that will Blueprint Negev. where they have lived for hun- therefore has “shared responsibil- be created in 25 new communi- To ensure that the villagers of dreds of years. “Over the past 109 years, JNF ity” for managing “93 per cent of ties. JNF South Africa is making Al-Arakib can never return, the All the information is available has evolved into a global envi- all land in Israel”. a difference by assisting young JNF has begun planting a forest on the Internet and is completely ronmental leader by planting 250 The JNF’s very constitution is pioneers to establish farmsteads. of environmentally damaging, substantiated by human rights million trees, building over 210 fundamentally racist with article The farmsteads are located in non-indigenous eucalyptus trees organisations within Israel. They reservoirs and dams, develop- 23 stipulating that only Jews may the Negev highlands between the to conceal evidence of its exist- include Negev Co-Existence ing over 250 000 acres of land, buy or lease JNF land. The JNF Telallim Junction to the town of ence. Further exposing the JNF’s Forum, Tarabut and B’Tzelem. All creating more than 1 000 parks, itself unashamedly asserts: Mizpe Ramon. The farms are built hypocrisy and the myth of being these organisations operate on providing the infrastructure for on available sites in the Negev an environmental organisation, the ground in Israel. over 1 000 communities, bringing “[the JNF] is not a public body that are neither protected nature in the process of forced removals, This article focuses on the JNF life to the Negev Desert and edu- that works for the benefit of all its reserves or army training areas. the state uprooted hundreds of and I will respond on the general cating students around the world citizens of the state. The loyalty Most of the sites have been chosen indigenous olive trees. peace issues in a further article.

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Wolmarans StreeT Shul should be reclaimed for Jewish community Show solidarity with JNF ‘After death, the only certainty is the worms...’ by buying a tree I was both heartened and saddened by allow a shul to become a church. While the Martin Zagnoev (SAJR May 10) and me obviously live in two Rabbi Dovid Hazdan’s contribution to community celebrates its 100th birthday, It seems that the enemies of the different worlds. Beliefs like previous lives, reincarnation, Divine (upliftment as reported in) the SA Jewish they cannot permit their original synagogue Jews are once again trying to attack force, world to come, etc, are not scientifically verifiable, but the Report last week. I was heartened by the to be treated like this – I checked and it was the State of Israel. This time their product of blind faith. After death, the only certainty is the worms. work the community is doing in Hillbrow for most recently sold for a comparatively small target is the Jewish National Fund. The classic excuse of religious people that “ we don’t know G-d’s impoverished blacks and because without sum – around R800 000. I think it is high time that ways” is unacceptable to me. A compassionate G-d cannot become Rabbi Hazdan there would probably be Surely we have the will to regain it! The the community come out in so cruel and sadistic. “G-d” has been a bitter experience for us, too no Great Park community to speak of. Great Park community could easily use the solidarity with the JNF against many times. The fact that some survivors continued to believe in His work in preserving his old shul’s - the old building as an outreach centre for blacks these elements. Over and above G-d, only confirms that their own judgements are flawed. Great Synagogue of Wolmarans Street - and we will maintain our primary religious expressing our support, there Any Jew who can believe in a god after the Holocaust, may furnishings, is also admirable. ornate structure. are also more tangible ways to as well believe in idols, as pagans did. Atheism is growing while I was desperately saddened, though, Of course, it cannot be used for regular contribute. religions are declining. Atheism has the potential to be much better because where is his community undertaking Sabbath services but magnificent chuppas Perhaps the community is than blind faith. their excellent work? In Afrika Tikkun’s could still be held there and we would have unaware but the JNF has recently centre at the Reform Temple Israel in an important link to our history and can launched a new campaign called Yossi Bogacz Hillbrow, not far from where the Great be used for special services/gatherings and “The Forest of Giving”. This Highlands North, Johannesburg Synagogue stands. more regularly when the Johannesburg city campaign allows you to purchase Many prominent people in the community centre improves. a tree for someone as a gift and FOR THE RECORD tell me that they are frustrated at the way The Orthodox community is no less adept to notify them via e-mail with a ‘3 numbers’ should in fact read ‘3 No’s’ Johannesburg’s oldest Jewish structure has than the Reform one at maintaining their virtual certificate. This will help to In Victor Gordon’s article on page 7 of last week’s issue, enti- been left to rot- even some non-Jews are religious sites; if Temple Israel can be saved, further develop the Land of Israel tled “Horwitz’s hypocritical silence speaks for itself”, a refer- surprised. then the far older Great Synagogue, can also and strengthen its future. ence was made to the “3 Numbers” - this was a proofreading Someone who went inside (Jews cannot be secured. The trees cost only R65 and are error, which should have read “the three No’s”, referring to the enter a church) tells me it is now used as a As an Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Hazdan I am perhaps the most effective way to Khartoum Resolution, September 1967, issued at the conclu- church, still with the old memorial plaques, sure also feels this way; he is a leader and I express your distaste for anti-Israel sion of the 1967 Arab League Summit after the Six-Day War. It Ark and ladies’ seating there; except with all am sure he and his community will be able activists. I would like to encourage has received this moniker because it calls for continued bellig- the Hebrew writing, the churchgoers have to recover a shul which means so much to so everyone to by JNF trees for your erency with Israel, saying “no peace with Israel, no recognition now added a Christian verse painted on the many. family and friends all over the of Israel, no negotiations with Israel”. We regret the error. Aron. Outside the place has been expanded I and countless former Wolmarans Street world. to a chicken takeaway. shul-goers would like to hear a response in The video explaining the Errors in ORT JET Eureka awards story In last week’s story on the ORT JET Eureka awards, it was Obviously Rabbi Hazdan and his the SA Jewish Report from Rabbi Hazdan concept can be found at www. inaccurately stated that Chabad’s Project Natan sponsored all community needed to move because no one explaining what steps he would like to take forestofgiving.com. Am Yisrael awards received by the prize-winners. Project Natan covers could walk to Wolmarans Street Shul on to secure that beautiful building. Chai. the R100 000 interest free loan that each of them received, Shabbat because of crime but did our shul and the rest of the prizes, which include software, iPads, train- have to be utterly abandoned? Alistair Swaythling Jody Bellon ing courses and the like, are sponsored by different business- According to halacha it is not permitted to Sandton Glenhazel, Johannesburg es. The new project is called Jet Angels. We regret the error. Jewishsouth african Report

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The closing date for nominations is 28 June 2013 27 June – 7 July 2013 Grahamstown ArtsNational Festival People in the know Ismail Mohamed – on what the Festival means to them fuelled by a love of The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown is this year celebrating 39 years at the bastion of local culture. We asked some key players in the his job festival what it means to them: Pieter-Dirk Uys, satirist: “The Grahamstown On the eve of the 39th National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, Ismail Mohamed, the Festival has always been an essential outlet for festival’s artistic director, spoke to the SA Jewish Report. This year’s festival runs from brave and dangerous thoughts. From the dark old days when most of what we did was illegal, June 27 until July 7; details are available through www.nationalartsfestival.co.za, in ie anti-apartheid, to the 2013 NAF, when most Standard Bank branches nationally and in Grahamstown city marketing outlets. of what we do probably will be in breach of a new Secrecy Act. ROBYN SASSEN describes his foray into the arts as by stown, that with its proliferation “It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s draughty. Some shows “a catapult”. of churches has earned itself the are brilliant, some are dire. You meet people you’ve been avoiding You could not be blamed if you con- “Lenasia is a complex suburb that misnomer City of Saints. all year. It’s a perfect exercise in freedom of expression, speech cluded, considering the weekly itin- was politically very sensitised but “There’s no Exclusive Books there. and choice. See you there!” erary of Ismail Mohamed (pictured), culturally conservative. As a youth I No food Woolies. But where else can artistic director of the National Arts often grappled with the challenges of you be in a place this naked of bureau- Georgina Thomson, artistic director Dance Festival in Grahamstown, he can breaking away from this community. cratic gatekeeping? You might bump Umbrella: “The Festival has built a reputation clone himself. Indeed, the quantity The arts introduced me to a different into the mayor in Pick n Pay and the to be the main platform for the presentation of ties he keeps in his office alone world. prospect of seeing a well-respected of SA performing and visual arts to local and would convince you the man has an “My job is what most arts adminis- academic shopping on the weekend in international audiences. But it does not only alter ego. trators would kill for,” he comments their dressing gown, is real. present the arts; it has over the past years But no. The ties are about a sensi- on his role in the festival, now in its “On a really heavy traffic day, it developed additional programmes of training tive understanding for protocol in 39th year, and still South Africa’s takes me seven minutes to get to for young cultural practitioners. the range of contexts which occur of- biggest. “It offers so much access to work. And when visitors come to “With this they connect the up-and-coming to the industry. ten during a typical working day for what is happening in the arts sector.” Grahamstown they are astounded Most importantly, the Festival also co-produces with other events him in his office in the 1820 Settlers But there are hilarious, weird and by its infrastructure. It works all the and producers, hereby giving the work life beyond the festival.” Monument. And his diary attests to downright inconvenient challenges time. In 39 years of running a city- an incredible work ethic fuelled by a to living in the Eastern wide festival, the professionals in Darryl Accone, editor, Cue newspaper: “In a sheer love of his job. Cape city the industry know the drill well, and country where thoughtlessness is on the rise, it Having taken over the helm of the of Gra- weeks before the festival opens, the offers a space for more considered and matured festival in Grahamstown four years ham- signage, the scaffolding for seat- - but of course not always mature - ways of ago, Mohamed has a background ing, the vibe moves in. The day being and seeing. in arts activism. He’s playwright, after the festival ends, the city is “The festival brings together new work and theatre judge, critic. He was a senior cleaned overnight.” experimental approaches with safe bankable cultural specialist at the American But further to that, is the offerings, which means that festival-goers and embassy and his travel diary needs annual jewel in the Festival’s festival artists are fairly sure of a satisfying time as well as of the to be seen to be believed. By all crown, the Standard Bank possibility of experiencing something truly, madly, deeply memo- accounts, he’s proved himself the Young Artist Awards. rable. Adapting the Indian proverb about chess, the Festival is a man for the job. Each year, he’s “It’s fuel to the festival. sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.” pushed festival boundaries a bit The reason for the success more, aiming bigger, better - and of the SBYA is its recognition Gavin Krastin, performer: “Apart from the more international. in an open competition. Win- invaluable exposure that the Festival offers, it “It’s healthy to push boundaries ners are sought after.” is the potential for exchange and conversations as long’s you remember the three Smiling diplomatically as to between makers and consumers of the arts Rs: Repercussions, Responsibility what he recommends as the best that is of key importance. It is one of largest and Respect,” he said to the media festival fare this year, he points festivals in Africa; to be immersed in so many halfway through his first festival in to the 238 page programme, add- creative offerings in such an intimate and in- 2009. ing that as a rule he makes a point tense way is just so inspiring. “The Festival also Raised in a conservative Mus- Greenway Photo by Paul of not visiting shows scheduled plays a key role in disseminating funds, availing stages and sup- lim community, in Le- to travel - he catches them porting young and emerging artists from the country. I am deeply nasia, Mahomed, during his work-related grateful for the opportunities, support, accommodation and time born in 1955, circumnavigations. that the Festival provides for me and my work.” became a maths Lynette Marais, former Festival director: “The and Festival strives to present a cutting-edge well- science balanced programme of excellence, showcasing teach- the best of SA arts. The Fringe is on an equal er, footing with the Main; seasoned perform- but ers and famous directors can just as easily be found on either programme. “The distinguishing feature of the Fringe is that it is open to all and exempt from the selection process that applies to the Main, thereby playing a vital role towards the growth of the arts in SA. “The Festival provides a forum for new ideas, is an indicator of future trends and has become the showcase for international promoters.”

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“I’m curious about rituals,” 26-year-old Fana Tsha- balala (pictured), the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance, says of his work Indumba, debuting at this Focused: dancers from Jazzart in Biko’s Quest. year’s National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. “My own rituals fuel my thinking. Sometimes I sit on my own and cry; the emotional release this cre- Contemporary dance and performance art ates for me frees up my head and heart. “The crying is my cleansing ritual. But it was an ROBYN SASSEN complacency. The colonial city of Grahams- Making new dance history are Alan Parker article by Lisbon academic Paul Granjo that alerted town, fraught as it is with contradiction and and Gavin Krastin, self-styled dance guer- me to the potency of rituals generally. His words In bringing a previously ignored genre under subversion, always lends itself beautifully to rillas, oft stepping into footprints left by encouraged me to visit Mozambique to research the its loupe this year, the Standard Bank Young a terrifying and wise glance at its underbelly. Steven Cohen. aftermath of their 1994 civil war. Artist committee has achieved something Whatever she does, Moys will touch you Their Cellardoor, set to reduce you to a “I visited the village of Nacala, a powerful place and the home to many war veterans. Its inhabit- fantastic, yet very obvious. in a way you won’t forget, leaving you re- quivering mess of curiosity in the face of ants have nothing. They fish and farm. They have no The cleavage of contemporary dance and membering this year’s festival as context. Or unexpected beauty, is on the Fringe; Rough electricity. performance art has long been ongoing in catalyst. Come armed with an open mind. Musick is on the Main. Parker also performs “This village was a place of exile. Things are much the West, beginning with pokes at formal Come emotionally armed also to appre- in Plastic, about choreographic stretch. worse in Nacala than they are here.” painting by the Italian Futurists before ciate the idea of negative entertainment. The Swiss bring us Yann Marussich who Tshabalala’s week in Mozambique to observe the First World War. They used sound and Young choreographer Nadine Joseph’s cur- will bathe in broken glass and explore his the post-war cleansing ceremonies and how they movement to rip the contents of their paint- rent piece, for.GIVE.n, dealing with abuse, body inside and out, for those with stomach affected the community of war veterans, sowed the ings out and push it into their public’s faces, manifests that rawness we used to see in and patience to watch. seeds for “Indumba”. It refers to a hut used as a place outrageously. dance in the 1980s. There’s magnificent There are many new names on the Fringe; for cleaning rituals in most African countries. Photo courtesy National Photo courtesy National Arts Festival But outrage is good: any emotion in this potent rage in her dance vocabulary which don’t be blasé in passing them by. New notoriously obscure medium is positive; sets fire to the stage. energy is healthy in this unforgiving genre. this year’s programme is jam-packed with a “Biko’s Quest”, is another historical piece There’s even a work by prisoners. fine array of experiences to outrage you and you shouldn’t miss. It’s choreographed To do it justice, dance and performance otherwise rock your thinking. and performed by Jazzart Dance Theatre, arts’ nature must be approached with an With Anthea Moys, SBYA’s first perfor- mooted in the early 1990s by Alfred Hinkel, open heart: celebrate the bravery enabling mance art winner, you’re promised some- which never disappoints, in its supremely, spectacle, narrative and dance to touch you thing to not only rock, but smash your exciting and intelligent choreography. where it might. JYB dances Hansel and Gretel ROBYN SASSEN hannesburg Youth Ballet. together, before it was consid- Not too threatening or avant- “It’s a tale of hunger, love, cour- ered acceptable or legal to do so. garde, it guaranteed a good, solid Opening up a field of magic, age and triumph, but there’s a “The work features new music evening out. That “blue rinse” coloured by filigree and silk and lot of enchantment thrown in on composed by Nik Sakellarides, brigade might have trashed the tinctured by the reality of giving the side, and a range of angels, and a set and costumes by fashion of dying one’s hair blue, the stage to young performers, is birds, jewels, pebbles and swans, Andrew Botha. There are some but they’re still an important something that the National Arts to enhance it all, said the ballet’s surprises also, by way of projec- part of Grahamstown Festival’s Festival programming team, in choreographer, Mark Hawkins. tion on gauze, which brings the stakeholders; and the young an exciting new move, has done. “I don’t teach them technique, magic,” adds Hawkins. dancers are polishing their act Hansel and Gretel, a full- I teach them breadth and how to For many, colloquially referred specially for them. length, two act ballet, which perform from their souls.” to as the “blue rinse” brigade by debuted last August in Johannes- The JYB has been in existence the late Alan Crump, who served • Hansel and Gretel is at the Guy burg, will be showcased on the for 37 years. It was established as the Festival committee’s Chair Butler Theatre, on June 27 at main stage at this year’s festival, by Audrey King in 1976, and for many years, the ballet was the 19:00 and on June 28 at 11:00 danced by members of the Jo- brought different races on stage standard of festival fare. and 19:00.

“The exercise taught me that one must appreciate what one has. And it also showed me how easy it becomes to take things for granted. It was mind- opening. “In choreographing, you’re halfway between your ideas and the dancers.” After his formative years with Moving Into Dance Mophatong, which he joined in 2006, he moved to the Forgotten Angle Theatre Company, directed by PJ Sabbagha. “I love MIDM. Its role in my career and in the development of my personality has been vital. But I believe you grow by taking risks. “A work is seldom about performance; it’s about who you think you are. There is enormous intimacy in performing. You cannot lie. “You also cannot make a mistake. On stage there is no second chance. I look at it like this: Whatever hap- pens on stage was meant to happen. But the thing most missing for me as a choreographer is a second eye that can critically assess the work as it unfolds. “This award is a chance. I will give it everything I have. Dance really can change a life. Slowly, youth are turning away from the arts, however. The pull is money. But it is our responsibility as dancers to demonstrate what a career dance can be. In present- ing ourselves, we must take care: We must never lose sight of our roots.”

• Indumba is at the Rhodes Theatre on July 5 at 20:00; July 6 at 12:00 and 16:00 and July 7 at 14:00 and 18:30. It performs in August at Jomba (Durban), and in September at Dance Umbrella (Johannesburg). MUSIC National Arts Festival Grahamstown / SA JEWISH REPORT III Grahamstown jazz - living, breathing, constantly developing GWEN ANSELL cases the music as something living, And the choices this year will be breathing and constantly in develop- tough. Webster has assembled a Jazz at Grahamstown is a huge beast, ment. constellation of interesting voices, with tentacles reaching into academia This year, the space for serendipity and put them together in intelligent (there’s a jazz symposium as part of has widened. The regular venue, the combinations. There’s a particularly Adam Mcconnachie Photo by Thinkfest on June 30), community cavernous, draughty hall of the Dioc- strong line-up of South Africa’s best, development and more, as well as its esan School for Girls (take an extra including singer Gloria Bosman, main incarnations as the Standard scarf), which presents three to four trombonist Jonas Gwangwa, guitar- Bank Jazz Festival and the National concerts each day, has been joined by ist Menyatso Mathole and reedman Youth Jazz Festival. a new one: the Standard Bank Jazz Barney Rachabane working with his But those two - and particularly and Blues Café, at the Lowlander in St vocalist daughter and saxophonist the youth festival - give jazz festival Andrews College. grandson, both formidable musicians events a special character in the City This will host one scheduled gig in their own right. of Spires. every evening, at 21:30, led by in- The divisions on the various pro- The educational projects allow novators such as drummer Ayanda gramme flyers and pages, mean very jazz festival director Alan Webster to Sikade, trumpeter Lee Thompson little in a genre where good players draw in players from across the world and saxophonist Rick van Heerden, don’t work in boxes. Apart from the to teach: This year’s visitors come followed by a jam session at 23:30 above, your don’t-miss list should cer- from Switzerland, the Netherlands, where players - from international tainly include some of the following: Scandinavia, Australia, the UK and stars to aspiring newbies - may all • US trombone and seashell player France. turn up. Steve Turre (June 28) And because their visits involve far In addition, the Eastern Cape • Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz more than the usual fly in, play, fly out Department of Arts and Culture is Shane Cooper (June 28 and July 2) schedule, they build musical networks running free nightly jazz sessions at • Ever-interesting Cape Town saxo- and deepen collaborations in a unique 19:00 in the Dakawa Cultural Centre phonist Rus Nerwich with a new way - not only those planned in ad- on Froude Street, featuring local and jazz/rap project (June 27) vance in the festival programme, but provincial bands. • Duetting improvisers bassist Carlo those born of serendipity at the event DAC gets a gold star for the initia- Mombelli and Dutch pianist Jeroen itself. tive - festinos rarely find transport van Vliet (June 28) Add to this the opportunity to spot to seek local jazz out of town - but a • The Rhythm Changing project led by upcoming stars at the youth concerts demerit mark for failing to tell us any- drummers Kesivan Naidoo and Nor- (always worth hearing), and Graham- thing about players, history or styles: wegian Hajkon Mjaset (June 30) stown jazz, much more than other essential information for festival- • French pianist Laurent Coq (June South African jazz festivals, show- goers making tough choices. 28) Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner for Jazz, Shane Cooper. Runette sure to account for a Festival highlight this year PAUL BOEKKOOI

It all started with music loving parents who allowed her to wal- low in classical music and opera. Runette Botha initially sang in the East Rand Children’s Choir, later

in their Youth Choir and while Photo by Clive Barda/ArenaPAL studying accountancy at the then Photo courtsey www.europe.org.uk Rand Afrikaans University, she was a member of the RAU Choir as well. Runette Botha? Who is she? Richard Bonynge teaching Runette Botha at the George Solti This question most South Africans Accademia. could not answer. But since she sharing the stage during a gala concert with Kiri was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Te Kanawa and José Carreras. Award in classical music, the buzz started. “Through the Solti/Te Kanawa Accademia Runette received lessons from Tippi de Kock (today the Georg Solti Accademia) in Italy I did in the East Rand, and later more intensive, spe- a course focusing specifically on the bel canto cialised tuition from Carla Pohl and Prof Virginia repertoire in Italian opera. Davids in Cape Town. “The music director of the Staatstheater “Initially I did not really consider a career in Kassel in Germany, coincidentally sat in on one singing. That’s why I concentrated on my degree of the master classes given by Te-Kanawa and in accountancy. Over that period my love for Richard Bonynge. Afterwards he invited me to music nevertheless fed me daily. Having sung as Kassel to become part of the core group of sing- a child and teenager at every opportunity, I do ers in the following season.” Gloria Bosman Live believe that life must be a process of commit- This company works according to a unique sys- ment and that there should be joy in your daily tem: A singer is given a permanent contract for Standard Bank Jazz Festival Grahamstown tasks. That’s why I wanted to study further in a full season. It has it pros and cons, as Runette 27 June to 6 July 2013 music after completing accountancy. explains: “The company must cast their operas as Tickets available from May at Computicket “Life doesn’t happen randomly. Everything much of possible from the pool of singers they has a purpose at a specific moment in time. have. It’s expensive to invite extras. www.standardbankarts.co.za For me it was the correct decision to study first “It happens occasionally that a singer might because the music industry and its environ- have to perform a role that is not well suited Also featuring: Steve Turre, ment is hard and competitive - a place one is to his/her voice. For the rest it is a great way of Vusi Mahlasela, Jonas Gwangwa, MiCasa, immediately after leaving school not ready for,” learning new roles and shifting boundaries.” Shane Cooper, Barney Rachabane, emphasises Botha. Soweto String Quartet and many more! With more than just solid grounding her vocal • Runette Botha sings in the festival’s Gala Concert, teachers gave her, she left for London to further in the Guy Butler Theatre, on June 30 at 15:00. Authorised financial services and registered credit provider (NCRCP15) TM her skills at the Royal Academy of Music. Here She also performs a solo recital, accompanied by The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Reg. No. 1962/000738/06). Moving Forward Moving Forward is a trademark of The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited she did a masters, majoring in opera. She made Audrey Hyland, in the Rhodes Chapel on June 28 SBSA141306-4/13 G her professional debut in the Royal Albert Hall, at 16:00 and July 1 at 19:00.

141306 JoJ ad 20x4 G.indd 1 2013/04/10 10:09 AM IV SA JEWISH REPORT / National Arts Festival Grahamstown PROGRAMME Appetite-whetters for the Grahamstown Arts Festival The Jewish Report has endeavoured to cherry pick 10 of the best festival experiences in the programme for each day of the festival. There are time-based overlaps and some productions have longer seasons than others. To be sure to not be disappointed, consult the official programme available on www.nationalartsfestival.co.za. All details were correct at the time of going to press.

Thursday June 27 Young Artist Recital (12+) Rhodes Chapel 1h 15min (music) 12:00 Dirt (13+) Drill Hall 55min 19:30 Anthea Moys vs Rhodes Chess (theatre) Club (all) Thomas Pringle 1h 14:00 Cellardoor (PG) Centenary Hall (performance art) 45min (performance art) 20:30 The 39 Steps (10+) Memory Hall 14:30 The Three Little Pigs (13+) St 1h 25min (theatre) Andrew’s Hall 1h (theatre) 15:00  (PG) Tuesday July 2

My Name is Rachel Corrie Arts Festival Photo courtesy National Rhodes Box 1h 30min (theatre) 16:00 for.GIVEn (16+) PJ’s 50min 10:00 The Secrets of the Blaauwkrantz (dance) Pool (all) Victoria Hotel, New 18:00 Plastic (all) Centenary Hall 45min Street 2h (tour) (performance art) 12:30 Hoss (13+) PJ’s 1h 5min (theatre) 19:00 Hansel and Gretel (all) Guy 14:00 Cadre (PG13+) Rhodes Theatre 1h Butler Theatre 1h 15min (ballet) 20min (theatre) 19:30 Rus Nerwich & the Wondering 15:00 The Line (PG13+) Rhodes Box 1h Who (PG) DSG Hall 1h 10min (jazz) (theatre) 20:00 The Snow Goose (all) Drill Hall 1h 16:00 A Town Called Fokol-Luthu (all) 15min (theatre) NG Kerk Hall 1h 5min (musical 22:00 Jittery Citizens (PG) Drill Hall 1h theatre) (improv) 18:30 Thom Pain (based on nothing) (13+) Princess Alice Hall 1h 15min Friday June 28 (theatre) 19:00 Anthea Moys vs Grahamstown 10:00 The Epicene Butcher and Latin Ballroom Dancercizers other stories for consenting (all) Thomas Pringle 1h adults (16+) Masonic Hall 55min (performance art) (theatre) 19:30 SBYA Shane Cooper Quartet 11:00 Hinterland (15+) Hangar 1h (PG) DSG hall 1h 10min (jazz) 15min (theatre) 20:00 Panic (PG) Gymnasium 1h 10min 12:00 The Purple Shall Govern (theatre) (all) Monument Gallery 1h (art 21:30 Dan Patlansky (PG) Lowlander 1h walkabout) (blues) 12:30 Running on Empty (PG) Gymnasium 1h 20min (theatre) Wednesday July 3 14:00 The Last Show (PG) Drill Hall 50min (theatre) 10:00 Story Behind Bars: “Art behind 15:00 Eastern Cape indigenous music Bars” (all) City Hall 1h 30min (dance) and dance ensemble (all) Victoria 11:00 Untitled #310 (12+) Guy Butler Theatre 1h (music) Theatre 1h (performance art) 16:00 Runette Botha Standard Bank 12:00 Biko’s Quest (all) Great Hall 1h Young Artist Recital (12+) 20min (dance) Rhodes Chapel, 1h 15min (music) 14:00 Drive with Me (13+) NG Kerk 17:00 Laurent Coq (PG) DSG Hall 1h Hall 1h (theatre) 10min (jazz) 15:00 Bleu Remix (PG) Atherstone 18:00 Wednesday Night (13+) Drill Hall Room 1h (performance art) 1h (theatre) Cape Town saxophonist Rus Nerwich brings a new jazz/rap project to Grahamstown. 17:00 Rough Musick (18+) Worcester 19:30 Shane Cooper (PG) DSG Hall 1h St/St Andrews College pedestrian 10min (jazz) 20:00 Exit/Exist (all) Great Hall 1h 20:00 Conversations with a Snake crossing 50min (performance art) 21:00 Mombelli & Van Vliet (PG) DSG (dance) (all) City Hall 1h 30min (musical 17:30 Callum’s Will (13+) Hangar Auditorium 1h 10min (jazz) theatre) 55min (theatre) 22:00 Steve Turre (all) DSG Hall 1h 10 Sunday June 30 21:00 Rhythm Changing (PG) DSG 18:30 An Audience with Miss min Auditorium 1h 10min (Jazz) Hobhouse (all) Oatlands Hall 10:00 Brothers in Blood (PG) 55min (theatre) Saturday June 29 Gymnasium 1h 15min (theatre) Monday July 1 19:00 An Audience with Pieter-Dirk 11:00 Dis Koue Kos, Skat (16+) Albany EISH! (PG) Guy Butler Theatre 1h 10:00 Lake (all) Drill Hall 1h (theatre) Club 1h 10min (theatre) 10:00 Settler Skeletons and Colourful 10min (theatre) 11:00 Flirting with Coward (all) Albany 12:00 Across my Father’s Fault (all) Characters (all) The Cock House 20:00 Woza Albert (13+) Rhodes Box 1h Club 1h 5min (musical theatre) Monument Basement 1h (art 1h 30min (tour) 30min (theatre) 12:00 Get Kraken (all) Oatlands Hall walkabout) 12:00 The Last Moustache (15+) 50min (theatre) 14:00 Martyrs, Saints and Sellouts Hangar 1h 10min (theatre) Thursday July 4 13:30 Bell ringing demonstration (all) Ntsikana Gallery 1h (art 13:00 Ben Schoeman & Anzél Gerber: in the Cathedral Tower (all) walkabout) A Cello and Piano Recital (12+) 10:00 Falling Moon (all) NG Kerk Hall Cathedral 30min 14:30 Elzabe Zietsman in Vlakkant/ Rhodes Chapel 1h 10min (music) 1h (theatre) 14:00 The Chanticleer Singers Diepkant (16+) Bowling Club 1h 14:00 Frank Sinatra Tribute (all) Guy 10:30 Bitches Be Crazy (16+) Bowling Programme 1 (all) Rhodes Chapel 10min (musical theatre) Butler Theatre 1h 30 min (Jazz) Club 1h (theatre) 1h 10min (music) 15:00 Champ (14+) Gymnasium 1h 15:00 Asinamali (PG13+) Rhodes Box 1h 12:00 The Voice of Anne Frank (all) 15:30 Anthea Moys va SABRE (all) Fort 10min (theatre) 25min (theatre) Hangar 1h (theatre) Selwyn 1h (performance art) 15:30 Anthea Moys vs Victoria Girls 16:00 A Day in the Desert (all) Vicky’s 13:00 Minnie & Johnson (PG) 16:00 Sunday Morning (PG) Drill Hall Choir (all) Thomas Pringle 1h 45min (theatre) Beethoven Room 1h 5min (musical 55min (theatre) (performance art) 18:00 Heavy (13+) Scout Hall 1h theatre) 16:30 The Things You Left Behind 16:30 Crazy in Love (16+) Glennie Hall (theatre) 14:30 Strategy of Grey (PG) Hangar (13+) Princess Alice 55min 1h 5min (theatre) 18:30 Rob van Vuuren – WHATWHAT 55min (theatre) (theatre) 19:00 The Chanticleer Singers, (16+) St Andrew’s Hall 1h 5min 15:00 Bain Brisé (adults only) 18:00 Appetite (16+) Glennie Festival Programme 2 (all) Rhodes Chapel (theatre) Atherstone Room 1h 30min Centre 45min (performance art) 1h 10min (music) 19:00 Runette Botha Standard Bank (performance art) PROGRAMME National Arts Festival Grahamstown / SA JEWISH REPORT V

Vanessa Cooke and Saturday July 6 Graham Hopkins in a scene from Vigil. 10:00 Saints, Sinners and Students (all) Albany Natural Sciences Museum 1h 30min (tour) 12:00 As Night Falls (10+) PJ’s 1h (dance) 14:00 Bye Bye World! (All) B2 Arena 1h (theatre) 14:30 Run! (PG) Great Hall 45min (dance) 15:00 Anthea Moys: Closing Ceremony (all) Thomas Pringle 1h (performance art) 16:00 Vigil (PG12+) Victoria Theatre 1h 30min (theatre) 18:00 Breathing In (16+) Library Hall 1h 30min (theatre) 18:30 Silent Voice (13+) Glennie Hall 1h (theatre) 20:30 Same Time Next Year (all) NG Kerk Hall 2h15min (theatre) 21:00 Pants on Fire (16+) Princess Alice Hall 1h 30min (theatre).

Sunday July 7 (last day of festival; all Fringe tickets at 50 per cent)

10:00 A Girl Called Owl (16+) Vicky’s 1h (theatre) 10:00 Song & Dance (13+) NG Kerk Hall 1h (theatre) 11:00 The Shadow of Brel (all) Beethoven Room 1h Photo courtesy National Arts Festival Photo courtesy National 5min (musical theatre) 12:00 Fully Committed (PG) Glennie Hall 1h (theatre) 16:00 The Art of Banking: Celebrating through 10:30 Mix Tape (all) Bowling Club 1h (musical theatre) 12:00 Betti and the Yeti (all) Memory Hall 45 min collections (all) Standard Bank Gallery, Albany 12:00 Our Lady of Benoni (PG) Dicks 1h (theatre) (theatre) History Museum (art walkabout) 13:00 7 Deadly Sins (all) Centenary Hall 1h (dance) 12:30 The View (16+) Princess Alice Hall 1h 5min 17:30 Rainbow Scars (14+) Gymnasium 1h 15min 16:00 Anthea Moys vs East Cape Shotokan- (theatre) (theatre) Ryu Karate Club (all) Thomas Pringle 1h 14:00 Swoop (all) Memory Hall 1h (theatre) 18:00 Karen Zoid (PG) Smirnoff Music Room 1h (performance art) 14:00 Unreal (13+) The Highlander 55 min (contemporary music) 17:00 Gloria Bosman (PG) DSG Hall 1h 10min (jazz) (performance art) 19:00 Anthea Moys vs Grahamstown United Soccer 20:00 Indumba (all) Rhodes Theatre 1h (dance) 14:00 Bram Fischer Waltz (PG) Glennie Hall 1h 5min Team (all) King’s Field 1h (performance art) 20:30 Cry Havoc (16+) Rhodes Box Theatre 1h (theatre) (theatre) 21:00 Vusi Mahlasela (PG) DSG Hall 1h 10min (jazz) 16:00 Dogyard (13+) B2 Arena 55 min (theatre) Friday July 5 21:30 Rick van Heerden Quartet (PG) The Standard Bank Jazz & Blues café, Lowlander 1h 10min 10:00 Yes, Really, Angel (13+) Scout Hall 1h (theatre) (jazz) VI SA JEWISH REPORT / National Arts Festival Grahamstown Theatre Woza Albert is a dream come No sugarcoating true for Prince Lamla in Cadre REVIEWED BY ROBYN SASSEN ROBYN SASSEN actually the reason I am in the industry. Omphile Molusi has the urgent sense of hunger, the skill and the “I’m not an actor. I’m a theatre- “When I was an adolescent, storytelling sophistication, to say nothing of an understanding of the maker,” this year’s Standard Mncedisi came through to value of surprising his audience, necessary to make theatre that will, in generations ahead, define the core of South African political Bank Young Artist for drama, QwaQwa as part of a Market theatre. Prince Lamla (pictured), 31, Theatre community theatre ini- He’s also a remarkably talented performer, setting ego-less fire said. His unprecedented six tiative. After matric, I met him

Photo: Adam Photo: McConnachie to his own work. “Cadre” which debuted last month in Johannes- month season of Woza Albert again. I was looking into study- burg, performs on the Main component of the National Arts Festival last year was his professional ing law and was trying, through in Grahamstown this year. debut. Lamla cut his teeth in Star Schools to increase my It’s a harrowing tale of betrayal and collusion, of being forced to the theatre through community matric marks. He said to me: understand the value of friends and family as you define yourself in platforms, but he agrees that ‘Why are we losing artists?’. a world gone beserk. his best education has been on He made me rethink my values Featuring sterling performances by Molusi himself, Sello Mot- the job, as an assistant director. sufficiently to drop the idea of loung and relative newcomer Lillian Tshabalala, who doubles as the “The director I’ve learnt most law and go and register at the work’s music director, the play slips from 1994 to 1965 and back again, backgrounded as it is by the stories within stories and hor- from working with is Jeremy Market Theatre Laboratory. rors within horrors that coloured the anti-apartheid sentiment and Herrin from Newcastle, in “I really never saw this multiple strands of pro-action in South Africa. the UK. I worked with him on award coming!” he laughs, still There are no Pollyannaisms in this piece which grapples with all Blackbird in 2007 and I really incredulous that he joins the the horrors of plastic bag torture, murder and the reality of breaking love how he goes deeply into ranks of Shabangu, who won people in the name of forcing them to betray their own. Difficult to the text in directing it.” SBYA for drama in 2003. watch moments propel the horror central to the story. In 2007 - ‘08 Lamla was with “My dream is to see all thea- But more than any of this, Cadre is a rough play; it cuts through Benoni-based Sibikwa and was tres in the country on the same the formalities of the hundreds of years of theatre tradition that in- associate director for The Fam- critical level; that we could for- forms it, with candidness. ished Road, directed by Helen get about money for a bit and Its set is designed by Scott Davis and is constructed of several Iskander in 2009. allow good theatre to circulate. bed sheets hung on improvised washing lines which cross one an- Hailing from QwaQwa, Lamla So many talented people are out other perpendicularly. The sheets are held up with hundreds of pegs, and thus become walls, indicating the ephemeral and dirty close- smiles at the idea that he has there, ripe for a breakthrough.” ness of township hovels. taken on apartheid theatre with Cadre is further fuelled by cast shadows, performers singing into a perspective that makes them me think of how I perceive I knew it was time.” And then • Woza Albert is at the Rhodes Box the mouth of a bucket and other low-tech devices to create effects valid today. “I want to do new South Africa. Asinamali is about it took a little longer. “But I on July 2 - 4 and tours nationally so enormous, they lift and rest the tale on their metaphorical backs. work, but these classics carry so the day-to-day grind of life. It’s believe in things taking time. I after the festival. Premised on South Africa’s struggle for democracy, the story much soul that when the oppor- about people’s need to mourn also believe in team work. And • Asinamali is at the Rhodes Box touches factional discord. In doing so, it focuses on the life of a tunity came, I couldn’t say no. for and blame a situation. in loyalty. on July 1-4 and travels to the 13-year-old Gregory - based on the life story of Molusi’s uncle - and They are still relevant today. “I’ve wanted to direct Woza “Mncedisi Shabangu, who Market Theatre after the festival the ripples he makes in his own circles, with parents, a brother, a “Woza Albert gave me an- Albert since 2001, when I first performs in Woza Albert and and then to the Soweto Theatre girlfriend. other level of directing. It made came across it. Ten years later, Asinamali, is my mentor. He is in August/September. It touches not only the crudeness of values specific to apartheid, but the kinds of horrific struggles he faced in becoming a man: too much pivots on violent loss and the need for revenge for a 13-year- old to hold the moral ground. The Line: Stories epitomised by photos in bottles You come away, awash with tears of empathy, but also with a hollow awareness of how democracy presented its own grim chal- ROBYN SASSEN bottle contains a photograph. “The idea of photographs in rest of the team on The Line. lenges. “The photographs are the bottles came of an interview I “A lot of people do not un- Cadre veers from grandstanding; its strength lies in its compel- While packing 450 glass bottles work’s pivot,” says Shmukler. did with a victim from Mozam- derstand process. The Line is a ling performances and raw and generous storytelling. comprising the set of award- The Line grew from her masters bique. On her sideboard was an gesammtkunstwerk, embracing winning play The Line, writer dissertation and is focused emptied Crosse and Blackwell many disciplines and nerves. and director, Gina Shmukler on the xenophobic attacks in mayonnaise jar upside-down. It Above all, the whole team and production designer, Niall South Africa in 2007. was full of photographs. I was needs empathy: we are telling Griffin, spoke to the SA Jewish You don’t actually see the very moved by that, and then stories far bigger than us.” Report. They were packing not photographs; you know they discovered the work of Palestin- “It’s because we ‘speak for Grahamstown (yet), but are there. SA photojournal- ian artist Mona Hatoum who Shmukler’,” Griffin laughs, for Alexandra township north ist Nadine Hutton, who was works with glass.” explaining Shmukler’s belief in of Johannesburg, for a season responsible for much of the It’s an unusual kind of a play, him and the cast, self-deprecat- in the Thusong community photo-documentation of this essentially a compilation of ingly. “I simply won’t do work centre. grim period in our recent his- stories all intersecting with one that does not speak to me,” Said Griffin: “We had 250 tory, is developed as the central another; somewhere between Shmukler adds, smilingly, but bottles in the set when the play character in this work. the reality presented in Claude earnestly. “I cannot justify that debuted at the Nunnery, then “It’s about revisiting the Lanzmann’s Shoah, in reflect- in my heart.” the set grew to fit the Market’s trauma when you, as the pho- ing on SA’s xenophobic crisis in Barney Simon Theatre stage; tographer, go back to edit the 2007, and theatre proper. • The Line, one of five plays at this now it needs to be redesigned photographs you have taken of The cast, Khutjo Green and year’s National Arts Festival for touring.” an event. I interviewed Nadine. Gabi Harris, was hand-picked from the Market Theatre, per- The set grabs you by the She expressed such a complex by Shmukler; she didn’t want forms at the Rhodes Box Theatre imagination as you walk into understanding of the events to open this special play to the on July 2, 3 and 4. The other Photo by Ruphin Coudyzer the theatre, and holds you rapt that the play just developed unpredictable roughness of au- plays are Cadre, Asinamali, Omphile Molusi as 13-year-old Gregory, filching his mother’s as the play embraces it. Each from there. ditions. The same applied to the Woza Albert and The Island. beads as a birthday present for his girlfriend. Shane Cooper (Jazz), Fana Tshabalala (Dance), Prince Lamla (Theatre), Mary Sibande (Visual Art), Anthea Moys (Performance Art), Runette Botha (Music)

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“It’s time to let her go,” says Mary Sibande, the Standard Bank Young Artist award winner for visual art. She’s referring to Sophie, the character she created over the last few years, and very successfully exhibited at Momo Gallery in Parktown North in 2009. Sophie’s an enormous sculptural construction made of a mix between a body casting and a massive skirt. She’s a conceptually sophisticated figure which engages with where Victorian culture The Framework Photo courtesy and the culture embracing domestic helpers intersect, and was Photo courtesy National Arts Festival Photo courtesy National initially inspired by Sibande’s mother, who earned her living as a domestic helper. The work’s been exhibited in various manifestations, locally and abroad, as sculptures and as photographs of sculptures, but now, said Sibande from Paris where she was on a residency: “It’s time for me to reveal the next chapter of my life.” The Purple Shall Govern is the title of the new James Cairns and Taryn Bennett in a scene from The Snow Goose. work, which has been designed not only to fit the 300m² of the Monument Gallery in Grahams- ROBYN SASSEN and one performer. In just 55 year’s festival: Dirt; Sunday town, but also to travel: the exhibition tradition- minutes, it makes you laugh Morning; The Last Show, ally, will travel to every national gallery in the A curious thing is happen- out loud and weep real tears directed by Jemma Kahn; country, in a programme extending until next ing in Johannesburg theatre as you see the whole vista of the Snow Goose, a new work June. today. Featuring flawless per- another’s life open before you. by Collocott and Warren, Notwithstanding the fact that this title formance, theatre savvy and You leave the theatre, your featuring Cairns and Tarryn is identical to a work made by Willem crispy fresh ideas, it’s about heart tweaked. The play, Dirt Bennett and based on the Paul Boshoff in 1997, the title, according bravely looking established does this too. The writer? Nick Gallico classic; Wednesday Mary Sibande, SBYA winner for visual art, to Sibande, draws from protest traditions in the eye. Warren. The director? Jenine Night, a new play by Ingrid poses in a costume evocative of “Sophie”. posters from the late 1980s Who’s behind it? Think Collocott. A pattern emerges. Wylde, directed by Princess in South Africa. It’s obvious a of James Cuningham, Nick This awareness of what plays Mhlongo; Lake, by the team corruption on the bid for democracy, but Warren and Jenine Collocott: are for, this energy onstage that put the Butcher Brothers Sibande draws on the ritual and religious value of the colour purple - one of mourning in her culture, to their joint creation, Sunday and in sketch is not only about together; and Jittery Citizens, create this new work. Sophie became a very important tool for me to tell a story with,” she adds. “The Morning is fitting this bill. It teamwork. It’s also profession- the improv show that’s taken question I need to answer is what happens next? How do I top Sophie?” debuted last year and bagged ally viable. It’s where perform- audiences by hilarious storm. four Naledi awards and a cou- er/director/curator Nina Lucy “It’s a 220-seater,” says • The Purple Shall Govern is on show in the Monument Gallery and the Gallery in the Round daily ple of Fleur du Caps in March. Wylde comes in. Wylde of the Drill Hall. “We’ve between 09:00 and 18:00. It features an improvised set In 2010, she and Cairns a three-year contract for this - the immaculately skilled per- venue. So far.” She is cau- STANDARD BANK former who brings Dirt to life - tiously optimistic in believing YOUNG ARTIST formed a business partnership: discerning festival-goers gravi- 2013 The Framework. “It started as tate toward venues because of an unashamed copycat of the their pickings. fantastic work The Factory in They’ve only just begun. the UK is doing.” Think of Julie Walters, Rob- Filled with passion for ert Lindsay, David Ross - UK Shakespeare, modern Euro- actors who rose to promi- pean playwrights and new nence as a repertory group writing, she says, “We have in the 1990s. This is critically been in this industry too long where The Framework heads. to have lightweights on our But see them first at the programme.” Drill Hall, daily through the Mary This year, The Framework Festival: Lake: 10:00; Dirt: cracked the festival nod to 12:00; The Last Show: 14:00; curate a venue, after host- Sunday Morning: 16:00; ing Tactics last year, a mix of Wednesday Night: 18:00; The SibandE improv and new writing. Thus Snow Goose: 20:00; Jittery the Drill Hall in Hill Street Citizens: 22:00. It’s almost becomes home daily to seven enough of an impetus to splinteringly fine productions visit the festival for just one The from Johannesburg for this full day! PurPle shall

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starting to prefer ‘entertainment’-based shows as opposed to ‘artistic’ Parazar shows. This, in my opinion, is due to the fact that SA audiences have been saturated with protest theatre and anti-apartheid shows. “Also, there is now a need for good entertainment because audiences want to forget their troubles and just not have to think about any issues as they have enough of their own. Shows like Phantom, Dirty Dancing and Jersey Boys, and their box office histories reflect exactly what SA audiences want.”

Orly Shapiro, 28, actor and theatre entrepreneur: “I’m not one for generalisations or sweeping statements and so this question does not just get a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. From what I’ve witnessed about SA audiences, it is that they like to follow trend. “If people see that someone who knows ‘art’ has dubbed a piece ‘cool’ or ‘great’ then they flock to it. However there are far too many moments of great art that go by unnoticed and unappreciated by SA audiences. Not to be only pejorative, I do find that audiences are starting to seek Starting from their own truths for what they feel is worthwhile art.”

DePOSIT Jonah Sack, 35 visual artist: “I think SA audiences do appreciate great NIS* art. That is, to the extent that you’re talking about art audiences. I think 550,000 art is a niche taste, like jazz or science fiction or greyhound racing. for a lavISh apartmeNt Not that it’s an elite taste, necessarily, just that it doesn’t appeal to IN a luxury reSIdeNtIal everyone, and that’s okay. complex overlookINg the Sea “So, within the narrow audience of people who are interested in painting and video and performance and drawing, I think there is a *Balance paid on occupation with no interest. real engagement with art, and there’s an intense interest in local art. Offer valid 31.7.13 This kind of attention - looking closely - is the most important kind of Luxurious beachfront residential complex to appreciation.” be built on Israeli coastline in the best position of Netanya South Beach. The Complex offers: Lara Lipschitz, 25, actor: “We must define ‘great art.’ If we’re talking 2 residential towers Luxurious hotel of the Western art canon, we must remember only a small minority of Condominium hotel Direct access to the South Africans can afford to watch theatre and film. This minority will beach Designed sculpture garden Spacious most likely be the same well-educated group exposed to such art. SA’s

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SHIRA DRUION property which became Art on Main, and the rest is history.” Jonathan Liebmann (pictured in- Liebmann reminisces: “In set), CEO of Propertuity, exudes just five years, Propertuity has an electric energy as he has trans- amassed a portfolio of 35 build- formed some of the derelict run- ings, and is mushrooming furious- down buildings of Johannesburg’s ly with a long-term portfolio goal CBD into the trendy urban village of 100 buildings.” of Maboneng - Place of Light. The buildings in the Maboneng Thirty-year-old Liebmann, origi- precinct, all form part of his vision nally from Durban, holds a degree to reconfigure the originally frag- in business and accounting. He is mented urban space. Liebmann ultra-focused, passionate and the embarked on his journey to restore quintessential optimist. Despite the original charm and charisma his relatively young age, he has al- that the inner city had buried deep ready achieved enormous success within her walls and has done so as one of South Africa’s leading with a spirit that is nothing short young entrepreneurs. of relentless. At age 19, while at university, “I love the city for a multitude of Liebmann started a laundry busi- reasons. It pulsates with a conta- ness which grew exponentially, gious energy and there is a sense and allowed him and his partner to of fluid community life. There is An aerial shot of Arts on Main, in the Maboneng Precinct, downtown Johannesburg. expand into 17 branches. vibrancy in Maboneng which has “During that part of my life, I been lost in the northern suburbs Propertuity and we have turned Kentridge.” There are also satel- trends, which have greatly influ- was living in a factory space in where high walls and electric fenc- multiple buildings into living lite galleries for institutions like enced my perception of the world, Auckland Park and it occurred to es have become the status quo. spaces for the hip crowd, many of the Goethe Institut, Nirox and the particularly in the realm of design, me that there were many other “When I first arrived back from whom are professionals who want Goodman Gallery, in Arts on Main. space and lifestyle.” such spaces that could be turned my travels, I felt stifled and rest- to live in the Johannesburg that “When I finished school, my Maboneng now boasts 15 restau- into living spaces; therein lay the less in the northern suburbs. The once was. Durban buddies and I packed our rants, entertainment venues, loft first vision for what was to later barrage of crime had trampled “We have also been able to cre- bags to go travelling. We stamped apartments, offices, a hotel, a mu- become the neighbourhood of Ma- people into submission and it was ate urban chic workspaces like Arts our passports in tens of cities seum and creative factory spaces. boneng. suffocating to witness. on Main which alongside being a across the globe, visiting Asia, Eu- “My goal is to make Maboneng the “I used the profits from my laun- “With this in mind, residential Sunday jol, also acts as a gallery rope and the US. The time spent best neighbourhood in the world,” dry business to purchase the first property has been a real focus of to many artists, including William abroad exposed me to worldwide he vows. Auctions SA JEWISH REPORT - 14 June 2013 11

AuctionsA Jewish Report supplement. Contact (011) 274-1400. South African art triumphs at Stephan Welz auction

The auction floor at Stephan Welz & Co in Cape Town this last week was indeed “Proudly South African”, with two Maggie Laubser paintings and one Tretchikoff selling for over R1 million each, and an iconic Sydney Kumalo sculpture going for R728 000, nearly four times its estimated value. Laubser’s Die Meidjie, which was estimated at R900 000 - R1 100 000, sold for R1 680 000. “This painting is one of Laubser’s iconic works, and a great example of her portraiture,” said Anton Welz, director of Stephan Welz & Co. “Adding to its attractiveness is the fact that it is something fresh on the market. It was given to the seller by the artist herself, so has never before been for sale.” Another Laubser painting, Portrait of a Woman with a Headscarf, sold for R1 008 000. Also new to the market was Kumalo’s bronze of St. Francis of Assisi. The sculpture, which is one of an edition of 10, was purchased directly by the seller from the artist, who is considered one of South Africa’s most important sculptors. “The work is one of Kumalo’s most iconic pieces and has been featured in a number of reference books,” added Welz. It was valued at R200 000 - R220 000. In recent days, Vladimir Tretchikoff’s oil on canvas painting, The Hindu Dancer (pictured), has attracted huge attention, as the whereabouts of Champa Chameli, the woman who posed for the painting nearly 60 years ago, were discovered. The sale of the painting at R1 456 000, did not disappoint, as it was estimated at R800 000 - R1 000 000. Last week, Chameli’s daughter confirmed that her mother, who is now known as Champa Manooa, was the woman immortalised on canvas by Tretchikoff, and currently lives in Florida, US. Chameli was a well-known South African Indian dancer from a musical family in the Springfield suburb of Durban. The painting’s new owner is a Durban resident. Continuing the current trend of high-selling Andy Warhol works, a colour silkscreen of Mick Jagger signed by both Jagger and Warhol, sold for R448 000. The silkscreen was valued at just R300 000 - R 350 000. Last November, bidding at the auction house for a funky Warhol cabinet crudely painted with dollar signs reached frenzied levels, with the cabinet (estimated at R15 000 to R18 000) ultimately selling for R134 400. In 2011, Stephan Welz & Co sold its first Warhol silkscreen of Jagger, which was valued at R200 000, for R268 800. Other important sales include a rare first edition of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, estimated at R10 000 - R 15 000, sold for R56 000, and an Anglo-Boer POW cedarwood and inlaid travelling writing desk made in 1902, valued at R20 000 - R25 000, sold for R112 000. AUCTIONS 12 SA JEWISH REPORT - 14 June 2013 Chagall sweeps Stephan Welz & Co auction A painting by French-Russian artist in 2008 for nearly 12 times its estimate. Scott of Stephan Welz & Co. Marc Chagall, one of the 20th cen- The sale resulted in widespread local Other sale highlights included sculp- tury’s most successful artists, was and even international attention paid to tures by two significant South African the big seller at the Stephan Welz & Tretchikoff, whose kitschy style remains artists: Sidney Alex Kumalo and Lucky Co Decorative and Fine Arts Auction controversial within the art world. Madlo Sibiya. Kumalo’s Dancing Figure in Johannesburg on April 23, fetch- This was also the first liveonline auc- in bronze with brown patina sold for ing more than R1 million more than tion for Stephan Welz & Co. The live on- R179 200 (estimated at R100 000 - its estimated value of line bidding was managed by ATG Media R120 000), and Sibiya’s Figural Com- R2,2 - R2,5 million. South Africa through www.the-saleroom. position, which is a carved, painted and Stephan Welz and Co said the com, Europe’s leading portal for live art incised calabash went for R17 920 (esti- work, Joie de Vivre Paysage de Vence and antiques auctions, which is now mated at R7 000 - R9 000). Avec des Fleurs, painted by Chagall in operating in South Africa. Of special interest to history buffs and 1948, sold for R3 584 000. Users of the website can search collectors of South African war memo- The sale of Russian-born South catalogues and place their bids over the rabilia, will be the sale of a gold brooch African artist Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Internet in real-time, with live audio and given by President Paul Kruger to his Fruit Seller was also a high point, with video feeds recreating the auction room wife. The brooch incorporates two lion the painting selling for R1 736 000, atmosphere - all from the comfort of claws from a lion shot by Kruger and a over R500 000 higher than its estimat- their laptop or computer. piece of unrefined Barberton alluvial ed value of R800 000 - R1 200 000. “The excitement of selling the Chagall gold. Estimated at R12 000 - R15 000, Stephan Welz & Co was the first local was matched by the success of our first- the historic brooch sold for R26 880. auction house to champion the value ever online auction, which has opened up • For more information, contact of Tretchikoff’s works, which resulted the bidding to a broader South African (011) 880-3125 or e-mail in the staggering sale of Fruits of Bali and international audience,” said Dr Fred [email protected]

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A column of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies A leader loved, trusted and revered by all At the time of writing, rights-focused society that people like Nelson participating in any future mediation process. of our democracy, whose Constitution puts so our thoughts cannot Mandela devoted their lives to achieving, is the This, as our subsequent media statement much emphasis on bringing people of all faiths but be dominated by Constitution, with its Bill of Rights. observed, had sent a clear message to Jews and and ethnicities together in a spirit of friendship, an awareness of Nelson A range of laws and institutions have been members of other minority communities that Mr understanding and mutual trust. Mandela’s serious state established to uphold its fundamental principles, Fransman was disdainful of their concerns and As it is, differences over the conflict in the of health. It can safely among them the SA Human Rights Commission had little respect for the constitutional processes Middle East have undoubtedly had a negative be asserted that South (SAHRC). The latter has become a crucial vehicle that have been put in place to protect their impact on the relationship between Jews and Africans across the not only for people’s grievances to be addressed, rights. Muslims in South Africa. This was frankly board will be feeling the but just as importantly for parties engaged in a Since no process of engagement that might acknowledged and discussed at a gathering of same sense of concern dispute with one another to come together and resolve the dispute is now possible, our Jewish and Muslim leaders in Washington DC over the situation. resolve their differences without recourse to complaint will now formally be proceeded with last week. It is a testimony to litigation. by the SAHRC. Our community was represented by our Cape Mandela’s generosity of Last week, a mediation meeting was scheduled What sparked off the present dispute with the Director David Jacobson and Rabbi Ron Hendler. spirit and full-hearted to take place under the auspices of the SAHRC Deputy Minister was his comment on a Muslim Afterwards, a joint declaration of principles was outreach to all the between the Board and Deputy Minister Marius radio station earlier this year that Muslim issued, inter alia stressing the importance of peoples of this country Fransman. The Board has lodged a complaint businessmen were being short-changed by the dialogue “based on mutual understanding and Above Board that each and every against Mr Fransman for certain offensive ruling Democratic Alliance in the Cape Province respect for each other’s religions” and pledging Mary Kluk one of us, regardless of remarks he had made and the meeting was aimed and that members of the Jewish community to oppose equally the evils of Islamophobia and National Chairman race, creed or ethnicity, at discussing and hopefully resolving the matter were benefitting. anti-Semitism. genuinely feels that so as to obviate the need for the complaint to be It was, to say the least, highly irresponsible It was inspiring to be part of a genuine and he belongs to them. He was able to transcend proceeded with. for a member of government to pit one warm initiative aimed at bringing members of all these differences to become a leader loved, When we arrived on the day, however, we were community against another in this way, with these two great faith groups together, and we trusted and revered by all. informed not only that Mr Fransman would the apparent aim of soliciting votes. Certainly, it hope very much that this model can be brought Underpinning the democratic, human not be attending, but that he had no interest in runs completely counter to the spirit and ethos to South Africa as well. This column is paid for by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies

Youth May Emunah batmitzvah KDL shows the prospective girls’ dreams all come true grade 8s what it has to offer MELISSA CHIPKIN

Yaacov Avinu, Martin Luther King and The Emunah batmitzvah girls all had a dream... It all began on Yom Hashoah at the Emunah batmitzvah programme. We held a wonderful ses- sion, learning about Anne Frank and the many other young girls who perished in the Holocaust, before having the chance to live their dreams. We held a competition - the first of its kind; we

inspired the girls to dream. And dream they did! The brief was simple, but the dreams that the girls Michaels Talia Photo: came up with were diverse and beyond our wildest expectations. The dreams ranged from simple to extravagant: becoming doctors, opening homeless shelters, becoming fashion designers, bakers, acrobats and more. Just imagine what a difficult task it would be to choose just one winner! We were honoured to have Howard Feldman as our judge. With great difficulty he narrowed down the field to come up with a winner. Originally we were only supposed to have one winner, but Howard felt that there was so much talent and potential that he offered a prize to two more runners-up. The competition concluded with a session where the girls got to present their ideas and finally the winners were announced. Sara Kotton’s dream of starting a clothing gamach for young girls in the memory of her great- grandmothers, is now on its way to becoming a reality. Our two runners-up are Yakira Shalpid, who is starting up a simcha band with her sisters and Sarah Shrock who will be making memory boxes for underprivileged orphans. We are filled with pride at the calibre of all the 42 girls on our programme and the depth of their dreams. And we look forward to watching them continue to blossom and become the future lead- ers of our community Grades 11 and 7 learners bond over a baking lesson in the Consumer Studies kitchen.

• If you would like to donate girls’ clothing suitable for a simcha, please contact (011) 786-7718. EMMA PORTER ferent coloured paper card on it. Each colour meant a different group and they were all On Thursday May 30, King David High School divided and taken on a tour of the school, to Linksfield, hosted its annual open day for get a feel of what is to come next year. prospective grade 8 learners in 2014. Grade They were guided by our future matrics of

Photo supplied 7s from several schools came to the KDL 2014, who warmly welcomed them and took campus for a fun and informative day. them to all the different classes, sports areas, It began with all the learners congregating offices and many more sites. on the rugby field where headmaster Marc The grade 7s were very interested and very Falconer and KDL student leaders addressed enthusiastic about the school environment. them. They explained the importance of get- After the tour they gathered again in the ting involved in school to get the full experi- KDL pool area where a braai had been made ence and they pointed to all the opportunities for them by KDL teachers. Different skits, by King David has for learners to participate and KDL grade 11s were on the menu and there grow from. also was KDL’s very own jazz band which This was followed by lunch, socialising and added to the exciting atmosphere. The day taking in the KD vibe. We at KDL felt a sense was nearly over, but not just yet. of pride and joy as we watched how success- The grade 7s parents then joined in for the ful our very own school’s open day was. This closing assembly in the hall. warm feeling came about as we saw the many After a short speech from our head boy eager young faces ready to see what was in and head girl, the choir treated us to a song, store for them. followed by a traditional Israeli dance by KDL The grade 7 guests then joined the KDL learners. learners and staff in the hall to experience Marc Falconer told the assembled learners one of KDL’s unique assemblies and famous of the numerous academic and extra-curric- Glance videos, showing all the major events ular activities that King David Linksfield has that have happened at KDL this year, from to offer. Sarah Kotton (right) is the winner of the Emunah batmitzvah programme competition with a dream grade 8 orientation to Yom Ha’atzmaut, in It was a spectacular day. We wish the grade of starting up a clothing gamach for young girls. Runners-up are Sarah Shrock (middle) and Yakira the most entertaining way. 7s all the best for a successful high school Shalpid on the left. They were each given a necklace with a dif- career. 14 – 21 June 2013 Classifieds SA JEWISH REPORT 15 To book your classified notice or advert contact: Tel (011) 274-1400, Fax 086-634-7935, email: [email protected] HOW TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED ADVERT: 1. Only adverts sent via email to [email protected] will be accepted. 2. You will be advised on cost & payment details. 3. Payment is prior to the advert appearing. 4. Our banking details: SA Jewish Report, Nedbank Randburg, Account Number: 1984 514 865, Branch Code: 198405. DEADLINE for BOOKING and PAYMENT is Tuesday 12 pm. (If deadline is missed the advert will appear in the next edition, when payment is received). 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Cost: R120 Amanda at Hospice (011) 728-1052. 14 – 21 June 2013 Sport SA JEWISH REPORT 16 20 SA JEWISH REPORT Sport 30 November – 7 December 2012 MaccabiPerfecting SA the banquet art of how has not it to all lose The notion that people game one needs to defend a lead. Howev- must nominate who they er, defence is seemingly quickly becoming think should win the what South African sport is all about. award, is no longer work- While the Boks held England at bay ing. Perhaps it is time in the north, managing to cling to a one ROCKINGROCKING THETHE BOAT BOAT that Maccabi SA went point win, the Proteas looked to be head- JackJack MilnerMilner out there and looked for ing for certain Test defeat Down Under Jewish sportsmen and as they ended the fourth day under the TheI do notannual profess Maccabi to beSportsman an authority of women.on Sadly, there may not be cosh at 77 for four wickets, chasing 430 therugby. Year During banquet my has time always at school been I actuallyas many as we may hope, but they to win. adeveloped great event. a hatred It was stagedfor the again game becauseare out there - people who are The match looked all over, with a win onit was Wednesday continually last weekjammed and down ourdeserving of the award. for Australia certainty, but AB de Vil- thethroats. lavish affair was once again Now that I’ve got that off my liers, Jacques Kallis and especially Faf du superb.However, as I got older and becamechest I would like to commend Plessis, had other ideas. De Villiers kept moreThe involvedbanquet isin onethe ofworld Maccabi of sport those and involved in organising last Du Plessis company for 68 overs and a Southbegan Africa’s to understand most important the nuts and boltsweek’s banquet. It was quite in- nobbled Kallis for another 40 overs in waysof the of game, raising I moneyactually to began help to enjoynovative in that six sportspeople the searing Adelaide heat, as Du Plessis Recipients of Maccabi South Africa Special awards, Dean Furman, Kevin Evans and Lance Metz. thoseit very who much. can’t Whatever afford to Iattend might thinkwere I honoured - three Jews and tenaciously defied the Australian bowling theknow, Maccabi I will Gamesalways in bow Israel. in admiration three to non-Jews. was unable to attend. Kevin was African rugby, Joost suffers fromattack team for nearly well ahead eight of hours. their exploits theHowever, likes of before commentator I continue Dan to Retief Thewho JewishCricketer athletes Faf honoureddu Plessis is supportedalso not atby the his eventteam as because he pulls he off a stunningAmyotrophic save of Lateral the second Sclerosis Manyin Israel people next would month. have found the extol the wonders of last week’s were soccer player Dean Furman, was busy competing in a cycling and can barely talk. He received The guest speaker was former has a marvellous understanding of the Test match against Australia in Adelaide. pushing and prodding mind-numbing to event, I do have to air my gripe. multiple South African cycling event. Lance, however, was at the a standing ovation when his Democratic Alliance leader and sport. he took advantage of a lucky bounce of in the final minute was one of the most watch, but it takes a special kind of pro- It is all in the opening line of this champion Kevin Evans (not too dinner to receive his award. certificate was taken to him and former South African ambas- However, what I have learned during the ball to score the only try - and fur- inane I have ever seen. That was total ficiency and mental aptitude to stay out column. The annual event is not many people knew that he was All three of the non-Jewish re- when various memorabilia were sador to Argentina, Tony Leon, my tears as a sports journalist is how to thermore superb defence by the Boks. capitulation, as if to say they were happy there for seven hours and 46 minutes, in being held every year and Maccabi Jewish) and the person I believe cipients attended, but it was a lot auctioned off, the item represent- who described with both humour analyse a game. As I said last week, I have I have said for the past few years that to lose by one point. mainly 34 degrees heat and high humid- has not presented that trophy should have won the Maccabi easier for them as they have all re- ing Joost’s Springbok career sold and eloquence his experiences toalways any Jewish tried tosportsman maintain since my objectiv-Sportsmanthe of theBoks Year are trophy unable to playtired 80 from minutes their of respective On sports. that subject, for a massiveI was the R100 one 000.person ity, within and five out different of parliament partners, and one of jockeyity and Anton not become Marcus awon “fan it within a pen”.a couple ofattacking years back rugby. when heIn the finalSwimmer 20 minutes Penny Heynsabsolutely and delightedThe by Gerald that decisionFox Humanitarian whom anecdotes could barely about run, his to time defy in a vora- 2008/09.Last Saturday I only managed to seereached the theof summit the game of Mount they were probablycricketer lucky Makhaya to Ntinias I allhad came backed AwardEngland went on to a minusBidvest’s 2,5 Brian cious Argentina.and tenacious Australian attack and secondSince ithalf is a of relevant the Springboks fundraiser versus Everest Eng- - Lancehave Metz.spent two of those minutesup on stage in the to be presentedspread with and thatJoffe, whacky who decision has assisted sealed a plethorasave a crucialOne has match to congratulate for his country. Mac- forland the Test organisation, but on Sunday it is in morning their I satThe performancesEngland half. of all The three remaining their 18 certificates minutes but methe myperson win. of participants to get to the Mac- Thiscabi was SA aChairman monumental Cliff effort, Garrun ownthrough interests the replay.to ensure Knowing it is the result,Jewish sportsmenwas played prove somewhere my point onwho the won Boks’ the 22m hearts of theThere guests is no doubtcabiah. we have some performedfor putting on debut together and alreadya great written stagedI could every put the year. excitement of a close- they are outline. there if you want to was former Springbokwonderful Joost van playersChief in our Rabbi team, Warren but one Goldstein into theevent folklore and hopefully of South they African did cricket encounterThere is anbehind expression: and dispassionately “If it aint find them. 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Cup qualifierWe kept concedingand halves penalties in the history in ofare South made up of andoffence wishing and thedefence. South It African is can sportlife. has elevated the art of defence that won us the game was an inspiration- the dying moments but one has to say vital to have a balanced share of both. It to another level. I suppose there is an alBoxing moment from Willem event Alberts in which tothat help England’s decision to go for posts is also an art to know at which point of a advantage in playing not to lose... What’s On MaccabiSunday (December 2) soccerprofessor teams of English at Wits, on “Please Sir, I Want Some More”, Charles Dick- • RCHCC is rescreening the award-win- ens and children in this his bicentenary JACK MILNER ning film, “The Debt”, directed by John year. Time: 09:30. Contact: (011) 648- MaccabiMadden South and Africa starring Soccer hasHelen joined Mirren, forces with1053, Golden faxGloves 086 to help273-3044. raise funds Donation: for membersSam Worthington, of the respective Jessica soccer Castain teams who and will beR20. travelling Join UJW to Israel for nextan informal month for tea the after MaccabiTom Wilkinson. Games. Venue: Clive M Beck the lecture. Auditorium.On Monday night Time: June 24,19:30. Dowayne Donation: Combrink and Sylvester Zaki will go toe to toe over 10R60. rounds Booking: for the GautengHazel or Middleweight René (011) title728- at EmperorsThursday Palace. (December It is one of 6) six bouts on the8088/8378, Fists of Fame after card. hours (011) 728-8378, e-mail:The main [email protected] supporting bout, also overor rene.s@ 10 rounds,• is UJW between CT adultAshley education Dlamini and division Koos hosts Sibiyatelkomsa.net for the Gauteng or www.greatpark.co.za Junior Lightweight title. 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