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Ray Hartley
Research Director, The Brenthurst Foundation
South Africa
Ray Hartley is the Research Director of the Brenthurst Foundation. Ray has a postgraduate honours degree from Rhodes University where he studied African politics and journalism.
Ray was an anti-apartheid activist in the United Democratic Front while serving on the executive of the National Union of South African Students. He later worked for the Human Awareness Programme, an NGO which provided training and advice to activists. He then worked as an administrator in the Codesa constitutional negotiations that ended apartheid. After a stint as the boxing correspondent of the then Weekly Mail, he joined Business Day and then the Sunday Times. He covered the Nelson Mandela presidency, travelling the world with him and witnessing the birth of the new, democratic South Africa.
He has edited several prominent South African newspapers and online publications, including the Sunday Times, The Times, Rand Daily Mail and BusinessLIVE.
Ray is the author of Ragged Glory: The Rainbow Nation in Black and White, which tells the story of the first two turbulent decades of democracy in South Africa. He wrote The Big Fix: How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup and Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would be King. Ray also authored chapters in Better Choices and In The Name of the People and is co-author of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Scenarios for South Africa's Uncertain Future
Content by Ray Hartley
NEWS
DA and Zuma’s MK Party Big Winners as ANC and EFF Crash, New Survey Finds
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
10 Mar 2024
NEWS
STATEMENT: New Election Survey Shows DA, MK Party Surge as ANC and EFF Tumble
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
8 Mar 2024
VIDEOS
The Paradox of Aid Forging the Path Forward in Africa
Ray Hartley
8 Mar 2024
NEWS
AD 2024 as 1938 – Why a Russian Victory Would be Bad for Most Africans
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
4 Mar 2024
NEWS
Here’s What a South African Foreign Policy Should Look Like
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
19 Feb 2024
NEWS
‘Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast’ — How SA went from Substance to Spin
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
12 Feb 2024
VIDEOS
Greg Mills and Ray Hartley on the Gareth Cliff Show
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
6 Feb 2024
NEWS
A Question for Washington and Pretoria: Do African Lives Matter?
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
5 Feb 2024
NEWS
The ICJ Ruling: South Africa is Claiming Easy Victories
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
29 Jan 2024
VIDEOS
South Africa's 2024 Election: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?
Ray Hartley
25 Jan 2024
NEWS
What Explains South Africa’s Tortured like-and-loathe Path to Hypocrisy?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
24 Jan 2024
NEWS
SA’s ICJ Action — the Critical Problem of a Populist Foreign Policy
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
16 Jan 2024