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Oppenheimer, Ernest

1929 Yearbook 

OPPENHEIMER, Sir Ernest, Kt., M.L.A. for Kimberley. Chairman, Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, Ltd. Born in 1880. Came to South Africa in 1902. Married in 1906 to Mary Lina Pollak; has two children. Sir Ernest is a prominent Member of the South African Party, and also takes an active interest in Jewish affairs; he was recently instrumental, together with Lady Oppenheimer, in assisting to raise the sum of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000) to pay off the remaining bond on the Johannesburg Jewish Guild.

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