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Hail to the reader! I hereby support the call that Prof. Jonathan Jansen, rector of the State University, should immediately resign from his post or be removed. Through its anti-African and anti white attitude, his racial obsession, his swearing in public, and his biased handling Cobus Muller and Charl Blom's case, he demonstrated that he is incapable rector of one of our proud African universities to be.
Recently, a biography from the pen of the American Jew, Alan Wieder, appeared with the title Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against apartheid (Monthly Review Press). It tells the fascinating story of how two Lithuanian Jews - even from Johannesburg define concise but later from London and several define concise African cities - a leading role in the attack on the former African Government played. Over the past 24 hours I have the book in one sitting read and would like to give my impressions here.
In general it is not politically correct define concise to the ethnicity of Jews to refer to, but in this case emphasizes the author has in his preface that he initially into First and Slovo became interested because of his and their common roots in Eastern Europe and Jewishness:
"As I worked on teacher stories between 1999 and 2008, I Felt a growing camaraderie with First and Slovo. Both Ruth and Joe's roots ulcers Eastern European and Jewish, as are mine; Both ulcers, at best, non-Practicing Jews, as am I; Both ulcers, like me, politically left. "
In summary, one can book as a hagiography or obsequious homage define concise to Ruth First and Joe Slovo described. I was already familiar with the roles of the "struggle against apartheid", but Wieder reveals both their personal geskiedenissse as their political actions, which pretty much new insights into the sad story of our Afrikaner defeat care. It also spoke to me personally, since my late father and his African friends in the forties on the Wits campus a futile battle against Slovo and Wolpe argued - hindsight speaking. At the end of his life he bitterly railed against "the African who had so many chances and blew it" define concise or "that devilish Slovo surrendered". Similarly define concise as a student at Wits thirty years ago, I left a lot of the Jewish culture in which the book involved, experienced and even the writer of the preface, the Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, once or twice accidentally meet. Gordimer is equally Lithuanian-Jewish descent, and was good friends with "those wonderful Slovo's", as she elsewhere in a newspaper interview to Joe and Ruth referred.
Joe Slovo is not even in South African born, but in the village in Lithuania Obelei then under Russian define concise influence. Last communist leader even at the age of ten with his mother in South Africa country. The majority Lithuanian Jews in the time of Paul Kruger arrived in our country and a prominent role in the gold rush played. By 1914 there were 40,000 Jews in South Africa, most of which are gathered in Johannesburg was. In the early twentieth century to 20% of the city's population of Jews, which led to the derisive names "Jewburg" or "Jewhannesburg" led.
According to Wieder Jews from Lithuania had to leave because of growing anti-Semitism after the assassination of Russian define concise czar Alexander II. In both Latvia and Lithuania have a