Eulogy: HARRY OPPENHEIMER

The preamble to our founding constitution speaks of honoring those who suffered for justice and freedom in our country and respecting those who have worked to build and develop our country. Chief among the latter must stand HARRY OPPENHEIMER and his family; that they also fought in a particular manner for the former sets them apart in the gallery of South African patriots. I shall remember Harry as a man of exquisite grace and charm, a person with a simplicity and directness that was disarming in its spontaneity, and one who was accessible way beyond what was assumed about a person...

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