David Bloomberg

David Bloomberg first came to prominence in the 1950s and 60s as an esteemed man of the professional theatre. He subsequently embraced the legal profession (he was the attorney for Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who assasinated apartheid president HF erwoerd), the business world (Bloomberg founded Metropolitan Life), and civic politics. During his twenty-year service on the Cape Town City Council, he was executive mayor between 1973 and 1975. A one-time columnist for Cape Town newspapers, The Lion and the Thespian is his seventh book. He and his wife, Rochelle, live in Lugano, Switzerland, but remain frequent visitors to South Africa.