Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
Dr Greg Mills is a Fellow at the University of Navarra in Spain and a founder of the Platform for African Democrats (https://www.pad.africa/). From 2005, he was for 20 years the director for the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation. His recent books include "Rich State, Poor State," "The Art of War and Peace." and the forthcoming "The Essence of Success: Insights in Leadership and Strategy from Sport, Business, War and Politics," all published by Penguin Random House. Ray Hartley is an independent commentator. He is the former Research Director of the Brenthurst Foundation and 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," "The Big Fix," and "Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would be King" among other works.
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Iran: down, but not yet out
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Jun 23, 2025
Boot and Ajax. These are the codenames of the respective UK and US operations that overthrew the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953. But this
Dodging the Doge – deliberately missing the Opposition point on VAT hike
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Apr 14, 2025
Although the number of South African public sector employees is supposedly 1.2 million, this figure is misleading and low. The number of total state employees
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