As funders of political parties start to come into the public eye due to recent disclosure regulations in South Africa, the Oppenheimer sisters and their mother seem to have piqued the interest of many. One of those daughters, Rebecca Oppenheimer, invites Muhammad Hussain to ask about her motivation to donate around R20 million to some opposition parties.
Rebecca Lily Oppenheimer is not her birth name, nor is she an astrophysicist living in the US.
The woman who has contributed R15 million to Rise Mzansi last year, R3 333 333 to ActionSA in 2021, and - along with her three sisters (Victoria Freudenheim, Jessica Jell and Rachel Diamond) and mother (Mary Slack) - contributed R1 billion to the Covid-19 Solidary Fund, says that she was born Rebecca Waddell.