Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
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. 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.
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Articles By This Author
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