Abe Bloomberg
Mayor of Cape Town
In office
1945–1947
Preceded byErnest Nyman
Succeeded byHerbert Gearing
Personal details
Born
Abraham Bloomberg

(1904-03-14)14 March 1904
Johannesburg
Died27 July 1990(1990-07-27) (aged 86)[1]
Cape Town
NationalitySouth African
SpouseMiriam Kirsch
ChildrenDavid Bloomberg
ResidenceFresnaye, Cape Town
OccupationPolitician, 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]

References

  1. Abe Bloomberg Geni. Retrieved on 1 January 2024
  2. 1 2 3 4 Green, Michael (2004). Around and About: Memoirs of a South African Newspaperman. Cape Town: David Philip. p. 163. ISBN 9780864866608.
  3. 1 2 CT history through the yes of its Jewish mayors South African Jewish Report. 2-9 March 2012
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