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Harry Oppenheimer
 
Date of birth: 28 October 1908
Date of death: 19 August 2000
Country Of Origin: South Africa
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Businessman

Biography:
    Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (28 October 1908 – 19 August 2000) was a prominent South Africa businessman and one of the world's richest men. In 2004 he was voted 60th in the SABC3's Great South Africans.
Family origins

The son of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (who was soon to found Anglo American plc, and become chairman of De Beers), Harry was born to an assimilated Jewish family of Germany(More...)
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" Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. "

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" I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. "

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" It is very wrong to underestimate the difference between being desperately poor and having nothing. It measures the difference between being undernourished and starving to death. It spells the difference between a peaceful social order and endlessly destructive tribal warfare. "

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" It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. "

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