Abe Bloomberg
Late South African politician that served as Mayor of Cape Town between 1945 and 1947
Abe Bloomberg | |
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Mayor of Cape Town | |
In office 1945–1947 | |
Preceded by | Ernest Nyman |
Succeeded by | Herbert Gearing |
Personal details | |
Born | Abraham Bloomberg (1904-03-14)14 March 1904 Johannesburg |
Died | 27 July 1990(1990-07-27) (aged 86)[1] Cape Town |
Nationality | South African |
Spouse | Miriam Kirsch |
Children | David Bloomberg |
Residence | Fresnaye, Cape Town |
Occupation | Politician, attorney |
Abe Bloomberg (March 14, 1904 - 27 July 1990) was a South African attorney and politician.[2] He served as Mayor of Cape Town from 1945 to 1947, and was a United Party member for the Castle constituency in Cape Town.[2] His tenure as mayor coincided with Queen Elizabeth II's royal tour of South Africa in 1947.[2] He was a confidant of Jan Smuts and the father of the late David Bloomberg, who also served as mayor of Cape Town from 1973 to 1975.[3][2] As a lawyer, he was part of the legal team involved in the Coloured vote constitutional crisis. In the Supreme Court of South Africa, he challenged a government decision to remove Cape Coloureds from the voter roll.[3]
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Mayors of Cape Town
- M. van Breda
- Smuts
- Jarvis
- D. van Breda
- Stigant
- C. Lewis
- Hofmeyr
- Kotzé
- Inglesby
- de Waal
- Graaff
- Thorne
- Liberman
- Baxter
- Smith
- Hands
- A. Lewis
- Gradner
- Foster
- A. Bloomberg
- Sonnenburg
- Thompson
- Honikman
- Gradner
- Dommisse
- Friedlander
- D. Bloomberg
- Tyers
- Mauerberger
- L. Kreiner
- van Zyl
- S. Kreiner
- Markovitz
- Muller
- Oliver
- van der Velde
- Keegan
- Sulcas Kreiner
- Solomons
- Bantom
- Hill
- Marais
- Morkel
- Mfeketo
- Zille
- Plato
- de Lille
- Plato
- Hill-Lewis
References
- ^ Abe Bloomberg Geni. Retrieved on 1 January 2024
- ^ a b c d Green, Michael (2004). Around and About: Memoirs of a South African Newspaperman. Cape Town: David Philip. p. 163. ISBN 9780864866608.
- ^ a b CT history through the yes of its Jewish mayors South African Jewish Report. 2–9 March 2012