Johannebsurg - The South African mining magnate, Harry Oppenheimer, former chairman of Anglo American Corp and De Beers Consolidated Mines, died on Saturday. He was aged 91.
The Anglo American Plc chairman, Mr Julian Ogilvie Thompson, said that Mr Oppenheimer died after a short illness.
"South Africa has lost one of her greatest sons," Mr Thompson said of the businessman and politician who inherited South Africa's biggest private fortune from his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, founder of the gold and diamond conglomerate.