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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]South African Jews played an outsized role in the country's anti-apartheid movement in proportion to their percentage of the white South African population....[/quote]
No they did not 
Nelson Mándelas prosecutor was Jewish 
The African people played an outsized role.
Don’t get your facts wrong [/quote]

Please, please - reading comprehension. I compared South African Jews to...other white South Africans not to Black South Africans (if you are going to call my comment into question, then use the correct language of the liberation struggle).

Hilda/Rusty Bernstein
Arthur Chaskalson
Johnny Clegg
Colin Coleman
Ruth First
Arthur Gavshon
Denis Goldberg
Nadine Gordimer
Helen Joseph
Ronnie Kasrils
Benjamin Pogrund
Albie Sachs
Joe Slovo
Ben Turok
Harold Wolpe

And that is just a short list.

The heroes of the liberation struggle are overwhelmingly the Black South Africans. My comment, however, was simply directed to the proportion of Jewish South Africans who were anti-apartheid activists in comparison to the rest of their white demographic cohort. Some estimate that the disproportionate representation was by as much as 2500%.

All to say, I'm not necessarily surprised that a white South African refugee may be both a racist and an anti-semite.[/quote]

Don't forget Judge Richard Goldstone who helped dismantle apartheid from the bench, helped lead the transition and post-apartheid healing process, and was later integral to the effort to make ethnic cleansing a crime against humanity.[/quote]
You are attempting to rewrite history 
Apartheid was mainly created to benefit the mining sector.
If you like, google the list of Rand lords, and then familiarize yourself with the conditions for the workers in the mines.
SA Jews were happy with the government and only Helen Suzman took a moderate approach.
The rest were as content as Nelson Mándelas prosecutor [/quote]

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