You’d expect, when a South African gets a letter from Downing Street informing them that they’re to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth, it would create a bit of fanfare. If not the front cover of You magazine, maybe a fawning insert on Top Billing. 

But not Bradley Fried. Or, make that Sir Bradley Fried — who grew up in Claremont, graduated from the University of Cape Town, and began a career that took him through blue-chip firms in New York and London all the way to the chair of the UK’s central bank, the Bank of England. ..

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