Word: hambro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal race policy. South Africa's business world was suffering badly from foreign reluctance to invest in so unstable a state, warned Mining and Industrial Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer. It had become "difficult if not impossible" to raise money in London for any South African venture, echoed Sir Charles Hambro of the powerful Union Corporation; to restore its credit abroad, declared Sir Charles, South Africa must seek "more harmonious relations with the urban native population" and "satisfactory outlets for the legitimate aspirations of all sections of the population...