Abe Bloomberg

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.