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Title:South Africa Inc.: the Oppenheimer empire
Author:Pallister, DavidISNI
Year:1987
Pages:289
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:0671654489
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:economic history
mining companies
Abstract:Sir Ernest Oppenheimer founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in 1917. It became the largest company in South Africa and, in many respects, the dynamo of the apartheid economy. For the past 50 years, the family has enjoyed an unprecedented control of the West's supplies of diamonds, gold and platinum. The Oppenheimers' rise to pre-eminence has paralleled and at times complemented with their money and power the development of the South African State. The authors have tried to provide a synthesis of a family and its fortunes which illuminates some of the most important political developments in southern Africa this century. Appendix: Profile of the Anglo Group.