FORMER Anglo American Corporation of South Africa chairman Gavin Relly died on Sunday after a short illness, the company said in a statement on Monday. Relly, who was 72, was chairman of South Africa’s largest company and the world’s largest bullion producer from 1983 to 1990. He succeeded Harry Oppenheimer and led Anglo through the turbulent politics of South Africa’s last decade under apartheid. Relly was also one of the first top South African business leaders to hold talks with the ruling African National Congress, meeting its exiled leaders in 1985, a move that raised the ire of former President PW Botha.