Mr Harry Oppenheimer, Mrs De Younger, Lady and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer at Waterloo Station en route for South Africa on 1 December 1933. Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (28 October 1908 - 19 August 2000) was a prominent South African businessman and one of the world's richest men. In 2004 he was voted 60th in the SABC3's Great South Africans. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (22 May 1880 - 25 November 1957) was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. ?TopFoto