Capetown, Aug. 11.
NE of the most colourful figures in the history of South Africa ended his adventurous career here yesterday when Sir Abe Bailey, millionaire sportsman and philanthropist, died at the age of 75.
Sir Abe Bailey, Bart., K.C.M.G., even at the time of his death, remained one of the most powerful of the Rand mining magnates, and as such, his benefactions were as legend as his wealth, which in 1936, before the appreciation in the value of gold, was estimated at about £10,000,000. As a political authority his word carried sway in every party in South African polities, in which he was regarded with. both respect and awe.
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