

Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
Dr Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, and is a Senior Associate Fellow and Advisory Board member of the Royal United Services Institute. His most recent books are 'Rich State, Poor State' (2023) and 'The Art of War and Peace' (2024), both published by Penguin Random House. Ray Hartley is the Research Director of the Brenthurst Foundation. He previously edited the Sunday Times, The Times, Rand Daily Mail and BusinessLIVE. He is the author of Ragged Glory: The Rainbow Nation in Black and White, Cup and Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would be King among other works
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SA counts the costs of an idiocracy
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Mar 17, 2025
There has seldom been as ill-considered a rant as that placed on record by the SA Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, at an online

The Game of Trumpopoly
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Mar 3, 2025
It seems like a bad hangover, that feeling of ‘F**k … did that really happen last night?’ But it did, and now we are staring

The moped and the freight train: South Africa’s foreign agonies
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Mar 1, 2025
Faced with three options to repair SA’s relationship with Donald Trump’s United States – doubling down on its differences, taking the knee, or finding a