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Leon Markowitz (1937 – 16 July 2005) was a South African politician and hotelier, he served as Mayor of Cape Town between 1985 and 1987. In the 1990s he was the National Party leader in the council. He subsequently served as Finance Minister of the Western Cape and as a fundraiser for the Democratic Alliance (DA).

As mayor in 1986, he was the senior official present at Desmond Tutu's installation as the first black Archbishop to lead the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. He also operated a hospitality business and owned the Ambassador Hotel in Bantry Bay in Cape Town.

He was also a benefactor of Jewish organisations and causes such as the Cape Town Holocaust Centre.

References

1. David Leon Markowitz Cape Town Jewish Cemeteries Maintenance Board. Retrieved on 27 December 2023
2. CAPE TOWN COUNCIL FAILS TWICE TO BESTOW HONOUR ON TUTU Department of Justice. 4 November 1997
3. receipt for DA cash – Markovitz Mail & Guardian. 12 September 2002
4. TUTU IS INSTALLED IN ARCHBISHOP'S POST The New York Times. 8 September 1986
5. Cape Town's very own Ambassador Biz Community. 12 November 2013
6. 1993 – A year of anniversaries University of Cape Town. Retrieved on 27 December 2023
7. Annual Review 2012 South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. 2012

• 2005 deaths
• Politicians from Cape Town
• White South African people
• Jewish South African politicians
• Mayors of Cape Town
• Members of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament
• South African businesspeople
• Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians
• National Party (South Africa) politicians
• 1937 births