Jewish Community Survey of South Africa 2019
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when asked if you personally felt discriminated against, you answered yes for an (q34_1specify)
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| Age | 1 |
0.8%
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| Anti white sentiment at work | 1 |
0.8%
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| As a progressive and very committed progressive jew I have had comments from orthodoxy regarding not being Jewish or not a Halachic jew ( of which many orthodox members are too). Also comments regarding parenting , that Jewish parents are better that othe | 1 |
0.8%
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| As a result of being in an interracial lesbian relationship, specifically by other Jews | 1 |
0.8%
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| BEE and Government attitude towards Israel affecting Jewish interests | 1 |
0.8%
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| Because I am jewish and white and a male | 1 |
0.8%
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| Because am married and a father with three kids. It would have been more “suitable†/ I would have not been discriminated against if I was single and had no children | 1 |
0.8%
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| Because of personal views, my direct honesty and the work which I do. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being a single religious female in my 30s I seek horribly judged, excluded and isolated from the community. Also, not belonging to a particular religious grouping and shul makes for a lonely experience. Lastly, I have felt judged by secular Jews who criti | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being a single struggling parent | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being a working woman and needing to work flexi-time. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being consensually non-monogamous (Polyamorous) | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being divorced. Being in a relationship with a non-Jew | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being told I had to retire when I have so much to give still and being so good at my job - age wise Being a little slow in retrieving information following a brain aneurysm - disability Being a white person trying to find employment currently - impossible | 1 |
0.8%
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| Being wealthy | 1 |
0.8%
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| Body Shape - Overweight | 1 |
0.8%
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| By Jews for; 1) Kosher interpretation differences, 2) Believing Mosiah has been & gone 3) supporting PM Ariel Sharon's withdrawl from Gaza, 4) promoting 3 state solution- against 2 state solution 5) believing Children of Israel multiplied by assimilation | 1 |
0.8%
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| By women in my own community who are envious or jealous of my willingness to succeed. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Can not get job as I am white, Male , and Jewish , The ANC practices apartheid against minority whites , BEE, Affirmative action of only employing black people | 1 |
0.8%
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| Cape Town council defrauded me over an incorrect unfair billing over a fictitious water amount during the drought in 2017. The leak which they alleged, never existed. The used the lever of deducting electricity supply as a means of getting R16000 out of u | 1 |
0.8%
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| Certain social and business environments not conducive to whites or Jews without being overtly or consciously anti-Jewish or anti-white | 1 |
0.8%
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| Competence. Wanting to make a difference. versus the "banality of Evil" in government systems in SA | 1 |
0.8%
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| Discovery Vitality expects the same levels of health/fitness from all its members despite certain things being outside of the members control, such as health issues or disability. This discriminates on the basis of disability. People are also generally a | 1 |
0.8%
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| Discriminated against by Jewish community because I am coloured and a convert. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Discriminated against on the basis of affluence, and on the basis of political orientation (left liberal) | 1 |
0.8%
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| Discrimination by Jewish person, for not buying kosher, and attending synagogue less frequently. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Due to the fact that I have a child with special needs. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Employment | 1 |
0.8%
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| Equal pay for equal work. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For being Israeli | 1 |
0.8%
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| For being a Zionist. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For being a religious/ observant Jew | 1 |
0.8%
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| For being a stay at home mom. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For being obese. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For being overweight. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For having a child of mixed race. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For having progressive values in a traditional/orthodox space. | 1 |
0.8%
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| For my Judaism I got a lot of Anti Semetisim for my Religion by wearing my Kippah | 1 |
0.8%
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| For not being 'religious enough' in the whole bnei akiva, yeshiva college community even though I am observant | 1 |
0.8%
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| For not being married and having children in a religious community where ppl my age have about 5. I pay higher shul fees then married individuals etc etc | 1 |
0.8%
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| For supporting Israel | 1 |
0.8%
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| For supporting Israel in principle and historically, despite NOT supporting the current Israeli government. This discrimination pertains essentially to work colleagues (both academic - local & international - and S Africans previously categorised black an | 1 |
0.8%
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| For work purposes, I work in Cape Town but our head office is in Durban, they have discriminated against me and as a result have discussed terminating my services even though they have another regional office in Johannesburg as well. | 1 |
0.8%
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| General Racism towards whites in South Africa. BEE requirements also restrict me from conducting business | 1 |
0.8%
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| General discrimination against white south Africans | 1 |
0.8%
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| Hatred against personal injury lawyers, stirred up by government and others | 1 |
0.8%
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| Having a descent job and making a reasonable income. Other's in SA have a sense of entitlement and look at you as if you're undeserving or have done something wrong. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Having young children | 1 |
0.8%
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| Health and Financial | 1 |
0.8%
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| Health; Financially and unemployed | 1 |
0.8%
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| Height. Level of orthodoxy | 1 |
0.8%
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| I actually cant remember but have had various instinstases. | 1 |
0.8%
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| I am Israeli, and have felt discriminated against by the BDS movement and Muslims in South Africa on many occasions. | 1 |
0.8%
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| I am in an interracial relationship and experience discrimination on almost a daily basis because of this. | 1 |
0.8%
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| I am married to a Sephardic Israeli and our family gets judged for being Jewish often, but there is judgement against us from a lot of South African Jews because my husband is Israeli and never went to school here. | 1 |
0.8%
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| I felt discriminated against when I was in Grade 6 at Tafelberg Junior School. That is why I left Tafelberg and went to Herzlia for High School. My parents wanted me to be in a Jewish environment and I also wanted to be in A Jewish environment. | 1 |
0.8%
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| I felt judged for being in a relationship with a non-jew (be obviously being a jew) | 1 |
0.8%
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| I have been descriminated against by jews for not looking "typically Jewish" | 1 |
0.8%
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| I have been discriminated against within my own community. | 1 |
0.8%
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| I have experienced extreme bigotry from (a few) Jews who view me as not really Jewish. I say this with understanding about the reasons and without blame. On both sides of the spectrum throughout my life, I have seen more anti-goy hatred than anti-semitism | 1 |
0.8%
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| I have felt discriminated against within the jewish community as a progressive Jew. I have also felt discriminated against because of my financial situatio | 1 |
0.8%
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| I have felt very discriminated against for being a very strong women not of wealth with lots of creative ideas and solutions and within workplaces to the extent of losing work because of these factors and challenging ineffectual and inefficient systems i | 1 |
0.8%
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| I was wrongly accused of being racist and mentally disturb | 1 |
0.8%
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| I'm not sure. Workers children on a farm I was visiting assaulted me by throwing stones at me. I think it was because I was an outsider and seen as an intruder but I'm not sure. | 1 |
0.8%
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| In Jewish circles for my financial circumstances. | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| In an extended court case that should never have even gone to court, and it smacks of racism. Other than the complainant being black and I'm white both the lawyers and I can find no other reason for this to have proceeded | 1 |
0.8%
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| Inability to behave in a competitive/assertive manner in my workplace | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| Instances of prejudice by Orthodox Jews for me being a Progressive Jew. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Interaction with government and municipal employees in particular. Certain radio stations | 1 |
0.8%
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| Internal family financial differences | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| It's all combined - the whole picture of who I am A 40 something year old white Jewish man in South Africa is considered the most "previously advantaged " in the new South Africa I will always be the last one to get the job , always at the bottom of the | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| Lack of fluency in Afrikaans | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| Language - I am English speaking in a predominantly Afrikaans-speaking community. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Monopoly Capitalist | 1 |
0.8%
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| My atheist leanings | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| My family and I were told by black non-South Africans to go back to Europe when we are South African by birth. This seems to be a stereotype that all white people are not South African. | 1 |
0.8%
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| My financial status, my place in the Jewish community re my Jewish (none-)upbringing and lack of knowledge and lack of ability to read Hebrew | 1 |
0.8%
|
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| Not being corrupt. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Not fitting a typical stereotype societal norm | 1 |
0.8%
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| Not really discrimination just unfairmess | 1 |
0.8%
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| People not agreeing with my point of view and so discriminated against me. The was mixed with ageism. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Personal | 1 |
0.8%
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| Political affiliation, and language preference (Afrikaans) | 1 |
0.8%
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| Political policy uncertainty locally. General antisemitism worldwide. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Prefer to remain shtoom | 1 |
0.8%
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| Privilege is a prominent issue on university campuses and white students (especially jews who are considered rich) are targetted. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Reduced budget available for my services within large corporate companies | 1 |
0.8%
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| Rejected for increased working hours due to financial constraints of the company | 1 |
0.8%
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| Sepecifically, difficult experiences of racism within the Jewish community which affect me as an observant Jew who is a person of colour. | 1 |
0.8%
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| Sexism in the workplace, general patriarchal prejudice towards women, generalisation | 1 |
0.8%
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| Social status and abilities | 1 |
0.8%
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| Supporting Israel | 1 |
0.8%
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| The Jewish community discriminated against myself and my son for our political beliefs | 1 |
0.8%
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| The Jewish community that I am a part of has discriminated against me, eg being hostile, treating me differently, for my political beliefs. | 1 |
0.8%
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| The government racist policy of Broad Based Black Empowerment. | 1 |
0.8%
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| There is obvious racial discrimination in South Africa so your question is spurious For over 80 years I have been told what I can do and what I cannot do because I am female. This b******* Just because I am an elderly, little woman does not mean that my | 1 |
0.8%
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| Vegan | 1 |
0.8%
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| WORK RELATED | 1 |
0.8%
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| Was pretty Ill and Employee knew this yet still proceeded to turn my situation around and claimed that I misled them and they then proceeded to dismiss myself, I was not provided a fair and equal opportunity to state my side of the story and what part I d | 1 |
0.8%
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| When I take my 2 dogs for their daily walks there's a crowd of blacks who try to provoke me but i managenot to reply. They also keep on that they are going to take my 2 dogs to braai. I've spoken to CAP and SAPS but hasn't helped as they apologise in fr | 1 |
0.8%
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| White Monopoly Capital | 1 |
0.8%
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| Worlksituation, my customer who was from another ethnic background overseas, Asian country, discriminates against women, and had no respect for me, it was necessary to take my business elsewhere and in future, endeavour not to deal with people like that, | 1 |
0.8%
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| appearances | 1 |
0.8%
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| as a divorced jewish woman i an not part of the Hod or their rich wifes . so im not part of the jewish group . i have been refused services ny jewish community services likr goid and accomodation in the past because i have not hot family in the hebrew o | 1 |
0.8%
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| being different being short dress style beliefs | 1 |
0.8%
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| being single | 1 |
0.8%
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| for being white | 1 |
0.8%
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| illness | 1 |
0.8%
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| in terms of business many people have not supported me which i think is a disgrace | 1 |
0.8%
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| jealousy with regards to my capabilities | 1 |
0.8%
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| my support for Israel | 1 |
0.8%
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| not being in a relationship not having kids at age 38 not being married yet | 1 |
0.8%
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| people are jealous of my life style | 1 |
0.8%
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| personal challenges - different lifestyle & focus/priorities than the "mainstream" of society. | 1 |
0.8%
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| political issues in an organisation | 1 |
0.8%
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| vocation | 1 |
0.8%
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| weight | 1 |
0.8%
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| yes. Age and colour | 1 |
0.8%
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.