South African Jewish politician Morris Alexander would be a notable community figure. In 1906 he helped pass a law that had Yiddish reclassified as a European language as opposed to a Semitic one. This prevented Yiddish speaking Jewish immigrants from being stopped on racial ground, which has been a frequent occurrence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_South_Africa
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