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Abe Bloomberg (March 14, 1904 - 27 July 1990) was a South African attorney and politician. He served as Mayor of Cape Town from 1945 to 1947, and was a United Party member for the Castle constituency in Cape Town. His tenure as mayor coincided with Queen Elizabeth II's royal tour of South Africa in 1947. He was a confidant of Jan Smuts and the father of the late David Bloomberg, who also served as mayor of Cape Town from 1973 to 1975. As a lawyer, he was part of the legal team involved in the Coloured vote constitutional crisis. In the Supreme Court of South Africa, he challenged a government decision to remove Cape Coloureds from the voter roll.

References

1. Abe Bloomberg Geni. Retrieved on 1 January 2024
2. ^ Green, Michael (2004). Around and About: Memoirs of a South African Newspaperman. Cape Town: David Philip. p. 163. ISBN 9780864866608.
3. ^ CT history through the yes of its Jewish mayors South African Jewish Report. 2–9 March 2012

• 1904 births
• 1990 deaths
• 20th-century South African politicians
• Politicians from Johannesburg
• South African people of Russian-Jewish descent
• White South African people
• Jewish South African politicians
• Mayors of Cape Town
• United Party (South Africa) politicians