m Vff TELFED MAY 1999 VOL 25 NO. 2 A SOUTH AFRICAN ZIONIST FEDERATION (ISRAEL) PUBLICATION THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAY iy A MODEL FOR OTHER NATIONS? HEALTH: Brcaklhroiighs in Brcasi Care BOOK REVIEW Viviennc Silver's "Docitnienling ihe Dream" NUPTIALS, route '94 ARRIVALS.... AND MORE [under reconciliation! 46 SOKOLOV (2nd Floor) RAMAT-HASHARON Tel. 03-5488111 Home 09-7446967 F a x 0 3 - 5 4 0 0 0 7 7 Dear Friends, By the time you read this note we will hopefully have a new Government and one will be able to think about more mundane matters such as overseas trips and other such pleasures of daily life. This Pesach really lent itself to a good overseas trip with two long weekends and the well-placed Chagim. On looking through "Places not yet Visited," Italy stood out. So near — only a 3-hour flight - and with all the components for a great holiday. I called my friendly travel agent and in no time had arranged a lovely apartment for four nights in the heart of Tuscany — Rada in Chianti - you've probably never heard of it (neither had I!!!). We landed in a great setting with beautiful views, lovely walks, quaint towns, and of course, wonderful restaurants of all types and descriptions. It's really a great way to spend a vacation, renting a villa in Tuscany or a room in a villa. In the main, they are not serviced, no food, but reasonably priced and a great base for exploring the whole area. It's only 2.5 hours drive from Rome or Milan and 30 minutes from Florence, where we spent the fifth night. For the next two nights we decided to head for the South of Italy to a dream of a place called Positano, in the middle of the Amalphi Drive, which, to be quite honest, is much longer and more spectacular than Chapman's Peak Drive (remember, just outside Cape Town!!). We ended off with a day in Rome, which is getting all spruced up and ready for the Millennium, and as usual is a great city to visit at anytime. Well, if that hasn't whet your appetite to lift up the phone and book a week in Toscana (!!!), then nothing will. We will, of course, be happy to make all your arrangements. Best Regards, Terry Kessel Managing Director CONTENTS L O O K W H O ' S TA L K I N G INTHEMAIL 1 If itAfrican shines, export sparkles, it could or burns, be. To a gold, South dia P E O P L E 8 monds and coal, we can now add South Africa's HEALTH 14 latest hot export - visiting lecturers. In recent months, key players in the transition from A R T S C E N E 1 6 apartheid to democracy have been on the tour TALKING TO TELFED...19 circuit in Israel, lecturing on the process of rec N E W A R R I V A L S 1 1 onciliation. Excerpts from talks given by former Prime Minister F.W. De Klerk, Arch ECO-ACTION lA bishop Desmond Tutu and Frederick van Zyl N O T I C E B O A R D 1 6 Slabbert, to name a few, appear in this issue. T E L F E D T I D I N C S 1 8 Why the interest? In a society once racked N U P T I A L S 3 5 by divisions and hatred; where the worst feared was peacefully averted, the world, and particu B O O K N O O K 3 6 larly Israelis, are keen to know — How did KEREN TELFED 38 they do it? Does the South African experience I N F R O M A F R I C A 4 0 present itself as a compass to an Israel grap pling with its own schisms? C O N D O L E N C E S 4 5 By the time this magazine reaches its read ers, both Israel and South Africa will be in the throes of election fever. South Africa will be PRODUCTION looking to consolidate its recent achievements, while Israel will be searching to articulate a Editor: Becky Rowe new vision for its next fifty years. 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Contact Lena. web: www.telfed.org.il Regional Offices To advertise in Telfed Magazine, Jerusalem: (02)5618135, (02)5634822 phone Lena; (03)6290131 Ra'anana Merkaz Kllta: (Wed. aft. call TA The views and comments expressed in articles in this publication office for app't.) are not necessarily those of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. The organisation is not South Africa responsible for the advertisers and the insertions in this magazine. tel. 011-485-1020, fax 011- 646-1325 1 N T H E M A I L SPELL CHECK ensure that these magazines will be distributed Dear Editor, to those who will most appreciate it. Hey you ous - Could have sworn I grew up Izzy Wolman, Director-General in DOORNFONTEIN - Siemerl Road, Beit Western Province Zionist Council Street, Ponevezher Shul, Jewish Govt., School UPLIFTED etc. Where is Dorfontein??? Suggest you check Dear Editor, out spelling before publishing place names I believe that the contents of this letter will [Telfed Magazine, January 1999, vol.25, no. 1]. not meet with the approval of most of your read Beste Groete ers! On a recent trip to South Africa, I strolled Aki Lapid (Lopert), Kibbutz Tzora through the centre of Johannesburg. Contrary THE GREEN BRIGADE: SOUTH to what 1 had been told, I was uplifted, as I saw there a people who had been emancipated after A F R I C A N S E N L I S T years of brutal dehumanisation. Dear Editor, Marcus Mandel, Tel Aviv When you first informed me about starting an Eco-Action Page in DECLINE OFTHE the Telfed Magazine, I COMMONWEALTH? told you that I thought it W Dear Editor, an excellent idea to (OH V)f » ^1- 1 believe this issue should cover current environ OMf be brought to the attention of m e n t a l i s s u e s i n t h e ' every znRy South Africans in Israel. Any magazine. The implicit one looking for a job in recent hope, of course, was the )7 HOURS iinmm months as a technical-market likelihood that the more w i m n y fl D£RTH ing writer or hi-tech salesper people would know, the Roz Gelcer protesting against son has probably come across more they would wish to Trans-tsrael Highway (Highway U6). several ads specifying become involved and "American English." Apart help. I must say 1 was taken by surprise - and from being totally irrelevant, this condition is felt much encouraged - by the response: a num also blatant discrimination against olim from ber of people took the trouble to phone or e- South Africa, the UK, Australia and New mail their questions, comments and sugges tions. I'm still at the same telephone (02-563 Zait B&B 9787) and e-mail address (rozl(2)netvision.net.il). Kol hakavod! 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Since the discrimination is based pri against them and senior management. marily on country of origin (Americans for Over the past three weeks, most of the com some strange reason tend to be the prime dis panies have changed their hiring practices, and seminators of the less correct version of the no longer specify "American English" as a re English language), which is illegal in Israel quirement. according to the recently adopted basic laws, If any of our readers feel that they may have these companies are violating the country's laws been the victims of such discrimination over as well as those pertaining to decency and com the past six months, please contact me.