A legacy of more than two million rand ($2,800,000) has been left to general and Jewish charities in South Africa by the late Claude Harris Leon, a pioneer Jewish settler in Johannesburg who died recently at the age of 88 while visiting relatives in Australia. He bequeathed two million rand to the Claude Harris Leon Foundation to benefit South African charities and institutions regardless of race, color or creed, and 40,000 rand ($56,000) to Witwatersrand University. Mr. Leon left additional large sums to Jewish educational and charitable institutions. He was Lorn in London and settled in Johannesburg in 1898 at the age of 14.
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