

Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
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. 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.
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Agony and Agency: Why Ukraine Deserves Emulation
- By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
- . May 19, 2025
In her acceptance speech for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, Ukraine’s laureate, Oleksandra Matviichuk, said: “You don’t have to be Ukrainians to support Ukraine. It

Invite Zelenskyy: how SA could use G20 for peaceful ends
- By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
- . May 12, 2025
South Africa’s one-step forward (hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy), two steps backward (sending Defence Minister Angie Motshekga to Moscow’s 9 May victory parade) attempt to

Tanzania and Uganda: time for a little less carrot and more stick?
- By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
- . May 2, 2025
The arrest on 9 April of Tundu Lissu, the Tanzanian opposition leader, and the subsequent banning of his party, Chadema, from elections for the next

Method or madness or both? Trump and his tariffs
- By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
- . Apr 8, 2025
The ructions caused by US President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz have been severe and felt all over the world, not least in Africa, where some

Survey shows South Africans prefer a GNU
- By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
- . Apr 4, 2025
The results of a new survey commissioned by The Brenthurst Foundation show that a strong majority of South Africans approve of the GNU despite the

How to dodge incoming: three scenarios in US-SA relations
- By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
- . Feb 21, 2025
On 11 February, four days after President Donald Trump’s Executive Order suspending aid to South Africa on account of its claimed mistreatment of white farmers