Meira Schneider

Mandela: Close Ties With South African Jews But Also With Arafat

By Meira Schneider

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – In the early 1940s, at a time when it was virtually impossible for a South African of color to secure a professional apprenticeship, the Jewish law firm Witkin, Sidelsky and Eidelman gave a young black man a job as a clerk.