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	The Hindu : Oppenheimer, a pioneer of reconciliation in S. Africa
		Oppenheimer was `one of the pioneers of reconciliation' in South Africa.
		Oppenheimer and indeed of the corporations and companies that he headed was the `Big Hole' in the heart of the city, the world's biggest man-made hole and a memorial to the diamonds dug out of the soil of Kimberly.
		Ernest Oppenheimer himself was actively involved in politics, serving as a United Party MP in the apartheid `Parliament' for 10 years (1948-58) and, as a profile notes, was a founder and substantial funder of the Progressive Party, the ideological progenitor of the Democratic Party, currently the largest party in Opposition.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/08/23/stories/0323000c.htm (651 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Harry Oppenheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oppenheimer returned from World War II and was elected to South African Parliament in 1948 as a member of the minority white liberal opposition, lending his considerable financial and high profile support to anti-apartheid stances.
		Oppenheimer was an avid art collector, his homes in Johannesburg and Durban housing an assortment of great impressionist works, and he was particularly fond of a Renoir he had found while a college student for a mere $60.00.
		Oppenheimer gracefully bore the snubs and public attacks from both heads of state in his homeland as well as fellow businessmen and Afrikaner commoners for his anti-apartheid politics, and continued to lend his moral and financial support to liberal and reformist activities.
	obits.com /oppenheimerhf.htm (835 words)

	Ernest Oppenheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ernest Oppenheimer was born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany.
		Oppenheimer was active in civil life and in 1908 he was elected to the city council, becoming mayor in 1912.
		Some historians regard Oppenheimer as somewhat progressive, pointing out that he was the first to provide adequate housing for Black mineworkers and their families on the copper mines in what was known as Northern Rhodesia, or Zambia today.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/oppenheimer-e.htm (991 words)

	Chapter Eight - The Jewish Connection
		Oppenheimer was able to close down his own mines, but he could not prevent newly discovered diamond mines in the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola from continuing to produce diamonds.
		Oppenheimer's empire, which had invested millions of dollars in borrowed money in these diamonds that could not be sold, was now itself on the verge of bankruptcy.
		Oppenheimer realized that controlling this vital supply of industrial diamonds was necessary to protect the power of his cartel.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /diamond/chap8.htm (3591 words)

	Ch. 5. The Oppenheimer Coup.
		Ernest warned the Diamond Producers Association that Angola's diamond producers 'were the principal and most dangerous competitors of all the foreign producers.
		The problem for Ernest Oppenheimer was that it was in the hands of the wealthy Chester Beatty of Selection Trust.
		Oppenheimer made a deal with Beatty by which Kleinzee production would be limited in return for a generous investment in Beatty's company.
	www.sparkle.plus.com /d-Ch2-Oppenheimers.html (664 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Diamonds
		Oppenheimer was able to close down his own mines, but he could not prevent newly discovered diamond mines in the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola from continuing to produce diamonds.
		Oppenheimer's empire, which had invested millions of dollars in borrowed money in these diamonds that could not be sold, was now itself on the verge of bankruptcy.
		Oppenheimer realized that controlling this vital supply of industrial diamonds was necessary to protect the power of his cartel.
	www.24carat.co.uk /theriseandfallofdiamondsedwardjayepstein8.html (3615 words)

	Print Article: De Beers heir tries on his diamond crown
		Significantly, Oppenheimer chose to be interviewed in his father's office at the headquarters of De Beers' diamond-selling division - the Diamond Trading Co - in London.
		Jonathan Oppenheimer has given few interviews, but, like his father and grandfather, he has mastered a courtly, understated air, honing the distinctive diffidence that provides the public face of a muscular corporation with sales of $US5.15 billion ($A8.33 billion) in 2002.
		Oppenheimer has said the legislation is more about fl "enrichment not empowerment" and has warned that it will threaten new investment.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/04/25/1050777407014.html (1484 words)

	Bryson Burke Diamond Corporation: Diamond Exploration and Mining in Canada
		Ernest Oppenheimer, a German Jew with British citizenship resident in South Africa, acquired the German diamond interests which he formed into the Consolidated Diamond Mines which he then offered to De Beers in exchange for that company's stock.
		Sir Ernest Oppenheimer actually agreed to this request on a visit to the United States and also agreed to sell the Americans £2.5 million worth of industrial diamonds but he had exceeded his authority and the British government vetoed both proposals.
		Oppenheimer too was alarmed by the extent of the build-up of American stocks of diamonds and thought that the quantity could not possibly be used for military purposes (Gregory, 1961, p.
	brysonburke.com /people_ernest_oppenheimer.html (1909 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nicky and Jonathan Oppenheimer launched their Brenthurst Initiative, which is really a blue-print on how to reform the political and economic environment in South Africa to instill investor confidence, to achieve fl empowerment and guarantee significant economic growth at the same time.
		Ernest’s son Harry entered into his father’s footsteps and also served in parliament, where he was one of the first South African statesmen to call, when the apartheid policies were still very much the law of the land, for constitutional reforms and equal rights among all Africans.
		Nicky Oppenheimer has first brought about the transformation of the diamond industry from an artificially controlled monopoly into a competitive demand driven business in which accelerated growth on the demand side is seen as the key to sustainable prosperity [i.e.
	www.tacyltd.com /TenLiner_Full.asp?id=37 (885 words)

	CNN.com - World - Gold and diamond czar Harry Oppenheimer dies at 91 - August 20, 2000
		Clifford Elphick, a spokesman for the Oppenheimer family, said Oppenheimer was admitted on Friday to the intensive care unit of a Johannesburg hospital with abdominal pains and a severe headache.
		South African President Thabo Mbeki called Oppenheimer "one of the illustrious sons of South Africa" and said he was among the first whites to seek racial reconciliation in the country.
		Oppenheimer also served in the ceremonial post of Chancellor of the University of Cape Town and was chairman of the Urban Foundation, an organization to promote fl housing and education formed by local businessmen after racial unrest in 1976.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/08/20/oppenheimer.obit (745 words)

	Tacy Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		E Oppenheimer and Sons, the investment company for the Oppenheimer family, has sold 17 million of its shares in mining company Anglo American to China Vision Resources, to a company controlled by Chinese tycoon Larry Yung, according to media reports.
		In 1957, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer died and was succeeded by his son and Opposition Member of Parliament, Harry Oppenheimer.
		Harry Oppenheimer retired as Chairman of Anglo American and De Beers at the end of 1982 and 1984 respectively, and was succeeded by Gavin Relly and Julian Ogilvie Thompson (who in 1990 became Chairman of Anglo American).
	www.diamondintelligence.com /magazine/magazine.asp?id=4436 (391 words)

	Chapter Four - Holding Back the Ocean
		Oppenheimer's father had built the entire city from scratch after he had obtained exclusive rights to the adjacent 200 miles of Namibian desert called the Sperrgebeit, or forbidden zone.
		Oppenheimer would have then to renegotiate his subsidiary~ s concession to mine the diamonds of the forbidden zone with SWAPO.
		The only means of entering it was the Ernest Oppenheimer Bridge, which spanned the Orange River frontier between South Africa and Namibia.
	edwardjayepstein.com /diamond/chap4.htm (2842 words)

	Chapter Nine - Diamonds for Hitler
		Oppenheimer agreed to supply the United States immediately with one million carats--14 percent of the American request---and deposit an additional stockpile in Canada for the duration of the war.
		The mine, which was bought out by associates of Ernest Oppenheimer, was ordered closed in 1921 after Oppenheimer met the mine officials in New York, and the mine's records were ordered destroyed.
		Rejecting the OSS idea of an "advisory commission" on diamond smuggling, the British decided instead have a diamond security expert and a mining engineer, bo of whom were to be hand-picked by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, conduct a security study of the mine.
	edwardjayepstein.com /diamond/chap9.htm (2269 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Diamonds
		At the airport in Capetown, he was met by Oppenheimer's chauffeur and immediately driven to the village of Mulzenberg on the Indian Ocean.
		He arrived at a beautifully landscaped estate where Oppenheimer and his family were spending their Christmas vacation.
		Sir Ernest Oppenheimer had always considered the vast undeveloped diamond fields of the Congo to be the single greatest threat to the cartel.
	www.24carat.co.uk /theriseandfallofdiamondsedwardjayepstein14.html (4325 words)

	South African gems magnate Harry Oppenheimer dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oppenheimer was admitted to the intensive care unit Friday at a Johannesburg hospital with abdominal pains and a severe headache, Clifford Elphick, a spokesman for the Oppenheimer family, told the South African Press Association.
		Oppenheimer, arguably South Africa's most respected businessman, was also a vocal opponent of his country's racist regime that sanctioned apartheid for decades.
		Oppenheimer had also served in the ceremonial post of chancellor of the University of Cape Town, and he was chairman of the Urban Foundation, an organization to promote fl housing and education formed by local businessmen after racial unrest in 1976.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/oppe21.shtml (739 words)

	3FForecasts - Futures Farming & Finance
		His father was Ernest Oppenheimer, the business genius who put the family’s gold and diamond interests together long before Harry came of age.
		Ernest was of German-Jewish extraction but, in putting his companies together, realized that no one wanted to see the South African mineral resources owned by Jews—either English-or Afrikaans-speaking South Africans—so he converted the family to Anglicanism and behaved like a WASP patriarch.
		Father Ernest started (and son Harry continued) hiring many Rhoades scholars by preference, and did little for the local Jewish population—ignoring much of their entrepreneurial ideas.
	www.3fforecasts.com /articles/0900oppenheimer.html (911 words)

	Oppenheimer Passes On At 92 - Glittering Life All Thanks To Diamonds
		Oppenheimer's father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, meanwhile, had been sent out to Kimberley by a firm of London diamond dealers.
		Sir Ernest's shrewdest move was to establish a central selling organisation that would stabilise sales and keep prices at a premium -- a system which exists to this day and which has allowed De Beers to maintain its tight grip on the precious gem business.
		When Harry Oppenheimer took over control of De Beers and Anglo American at the death of his father in 1957, he quickly realised he needed to expand the diamond market.
	www.rense.com /general3/glit.htm (536 words)

	Salon.com Business \| Not forever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nothing lasts forever and with the death this August at 91 of Harry Oppenheimer, the South African diamond magnate and former CEO of the De Beers cartel, the end of an era in which the world's diamond supply is exclusively controlled by one company and one family may be at hand.
		Oppenheimer inherited control of De Beers from his father, Sir Ernest, who seized the reins of the diamond empire of Cecil Rhodes -- eponymous founder of Rhodesia and the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships -- in 1929, mere months before the U.S. stock market crash.
		Although it was Sir Ernest who built De Beers into a worldwide cartel, it was Harry Oppenheimer who strengthened his father's legacy through his ingenious sculpting of the public's demand for the rock.
	archive.salon.com /business/feature/2000/09/27/diamonds/print.html (2248 words)

	The Diamond King \| TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of six sons of a German Jewish cigar merchant, Ernest Oppenheimer at his death was undisputed boss of the cartel that controls 95% of the world's diamond production, and he controlled more than 90 other companies worth an estimated $2.5 billion.
		Ernest Oppenheimer went to South Africa in 1902 as a diamond buyer for a London firm.
		But Oppenheimer successfully fought off a U.S. Government antitrust suit in 1945 on the ground that it was American dealers who "cooperated" with him, not he who told them what to do.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,810133,00.html (775 words)

	Purchased by Chinese billionaire Larry Yung for $803 mn, Oppenheimer sell one third stake in Anglo, De Beers, ...
		OPPENHEIMER family sold a third of its stake in Anglo American, around 1.13 per cent of the company which it helped found, to Chinese billionaire Larry Yung’s China Vision Resources for around $803 million, according to reports.
		The Oppenheimers continue to hold more than 2 per cent in Anglo American, along with a 40 per cent stake in diamond miner De Beers, in which Anglo holds a 45 per cent stake.
		Anglo American was founded in 1917 by German-born Ernest Oppenheimer, with considerable backing from the financier J.P. Morgan, to exploit the east Witwatersrand goldfield.
	www.diamondworld.net /newsroom/print.asp?newsid=745 (155 words)

	Ernest Oppenheimer
		Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957) was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.
		He was born in Friedberg, Germany, the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant.
		He was succeeded in the business by his son Harry Oppenheimer.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Ernest_Oppenheimer (133 words)

	www.miningmx.com \| profiles Curtain comes down on Oppenheimer legacy
		In parallel, Ernest Oppenheimer acquired control of the diamond fields of ex-German South West Africa (now Namibia) after the First World War and in 1929 was elected chairman of the doyen of the diamond mining industry, De Beers Consolidated.
		When Ernest’s elder son was killed during the First World War, his younger brother Harry was drafted in his stead.
		Harry succeeded Ernest as chairman, and when he retired in 1985 (he died only in 2000) it was generally assumed that the seat would be kept warm for the next generation.
	www.miningmx.com /profiles/361187.htm (912 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| gems World's richest mining family to focus on giving? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They are people who admire the Oppenheimers but who are concerned that if Nicholas and Jonathan hang on, history will not be kind to them or to their family.
		They were the years when the Oppenheimer family, led first by Ernest and subsequently by Harry, was building its private fortune in a mining industry where labour was kept in its subservient, powerless place by South Africa’s race laws.
		Still, the annual total of Oppenheimer personal donations is reckoned to be in the region of R5 million or something less than 1% of their annual dividend income from De Beers.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/gems/426941.htm (2006 words)

	Crimes & Mysteries of South Africa
		On the night of 5 December 1955, an assortment of jewels belonging to Bridgett Oppenheimer, Harry Oppenheimer's wife, was stolen from Little Brenthurst.
		When Mrs Oppenheimer returned from her dinner engagement that evening, she didn't bother to return the jewellery she had been wearing to the safe.
		She first telephoned the police, then her husband's office (Mr Oppenheimer was on a safari in Central Africa at the time); then she summoned the servants.
	www.africacrime-mystery.co.za /books/fsac/chp8.htm (2068 words)

	Oppenheimer Family Crest
		The Oppenheimer surname was derived from the place named Oppenheim in the town of Hesse, between Mainz and Worms.
		As such, Oppenheimer is classed as a habitation name, a name derived from a pre-existing town, village, parish, or farmstead name.
		In the Oppenheimer coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/oppenheimer-family-crest.htm (622 words)

	Chapters 21
		Ernest Oppenheimer is sort of the middle ground.
		Oppenheimer doesn't condemn the whites and their lifestyle, but he is in favor of making life for the natives better.
		Information about Ernest Oppenheimer and De Beers can be found at: http://www.sparkle.plus.com/d-Ch2-Oppenheimers.html Harry Oppenheimer used his power and prestige in South Africa to oppose apartheid.
	www.students.c.csbsju.edu /camcconvill/chapters_21.htm (1355 words)

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