Talk:Ernest Oppenheimer

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I might be interested to add some material to this article at some point in the future, but have never edited an actual article before. Is there any Gemology and Jewelry editor ....or anyone....who might be able to assist, particular in guiding me to a source that would help me understand how to set up the formatting? One possibility would be that I could post the material to the discussion page for a time and solicit feedback. Then, if the feedback is supportive, I could try to add it to the article. --FurnaldHall (talk) 03:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Be bold. Socrates2008 (Talk) 12:50, 4 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

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WHY DO YOU NOT STATE ALSO THAT THEY WERE TEN SIBLINGS AND APOOR FAMILY IN GERMANY. HE STARTED AS A TEA-BOY IN HIS UNCLES DUNKELSBUHLER COMPANY IN LONDON AND AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF DIAMONDS IN SOUTH AFRICA, HIS UNCLE SENT HIS BROTHER OVER FIRST AND THEN HIM TO GO AND GET OF THE DIAMONDS.

THEIR DE BEERS AND AAC'S IN SOUTH AFRICA OPERATED IN THE NORMAL BRITISH APARTHEID FASHION WHERE NON-WHITE PEOPLES WERE RELEGATED TO THE MINING JOBS AND NOT ANY DECENT POSITIONS FOR DECADES AND NEVER GIVEN SUPERVISORY OR MANAGERIAL POSITIONS. IN FACT THEY EVEN DISMISSED A SINGLE-PARENT, DRAUGHTSWOMAN CONTRACTOR FROM AAC, SAYING THE PROVERBIAL "WE HAVE NO MORE WORK FOR YOU", IN 1993 AFTTER SHE HER ARTICLE IN THE SUNDAY TIMES ON 12 MARCH 1993 AND MAY 1993, REGARDING HER FIGHTING FOR HER ONE GRANDMOTHER'S OVER 300 PROPERTIES, WHICH THE BRITISH APARTHEID LAWS MADE THE GOVERNMENT DISPOSSESS HER OF IN 1958 - 1962.

IT IS A BATANT LIE BY THE OPPENHEIMERS TO NOW SAY THAT ERNEST DISAPPROVED OF THE LAWS - THEY HAD ALL THE MONEY AND POWER SO WHY DID THEY NOT CHANGE THEIR WORK POLICIES AND PRACTICES TO PROVE THAT THEY DISAGREED WITH THE LAWS? I KNOW OF MANY SMALL COMPANIES WHO DID SO, BUR DEFINITELY NOT THE DE BEERS AND ANGLO'S, THAT IS FOR SURE AS I HAD PERSONALLY WORKED AT OVER 30 COMPANIES, ESPECIALLY THE ENGINEERING FIELD, BUT NOT ONLY AND ON ALMOST ALL OF THE MINING PROJECTS TOO. HENCE, I KNOW PRECISELY WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SOUTH AFRICAN WORK-PLACE, UNLIKE THE ANC, WHO DID NOT WORK, BUT WERE IN EXILE OR IN PRISON. SO THE ANC SHOULD NOT BE SPEAKING ON OUR BEHALF, BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN BOUGHT OVER BY THE OPPENHEIMERS. THE ARE SELL-OUTS AND NOW ALSO SUDDENLY ENRICHED, WHILE WE HAVE NOTHING, YET OUR FORBEARERS WERE WEALTHY AND HARD-WORKING.

THANKS, WIKEPEDIA, FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP.

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