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African Jews overwhelmingly voted for opposition parties, rather than the governing National Party. He said that his community and the broader white community raised during apartheid, had a profound personal and collective responsibility as they confronted the idea that some of their attainments might have been achieved only because of apartheid’s role in denying to others what they now enjoyed. He opined that it was a moral imperative for apartheid beneficiaries to share with the previously disenfranchised populations.
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on 18 November 1997, the second day of the TRC's special three-day hearing into the role of the church under apartheid. Harris said that his community was not involved in establishing apartheid and that many disagreed with the policies. He recognised an awkward tension around apartheid, and that his
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