Harry Oppenheimer
Harry Oppenheimer
Harry Frederick Oppenheimerwas a prominent South African businessman and one of the world's richest men. In 2004 he was voted 60th in the SABC3's Great South Africans...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 October 1908
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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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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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Disagreeable though it may be, we must admit that the racial policy which has been pursued here over the last 40 years has made South Africa stink in the nostrils of decent, humane people around the world.