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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
EVENTS
Watch The Webinar: Lockdown Economics: Will the Economic Recovery Plan Work?
with Ray Hartley
VIDEOS
A Aspiração Asiática
Emily van der Merwe, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Olusegun Obasanjo, Hailemariam Desalegn, Bobi Wine, Greg Mills, Ray Hartley, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo
14 Oct 2020
VIDEOS
L'aspiration asiatique
Emily van der Merwe, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Ray Hartley, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Olusegun Obasanjo, Hailemariam Desalegn, Bobi Wine, Greg Mills
14 Oct 2020
VIDEOS
The Asian Aspiration Documentary
Ray Hartley, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Bobi Wine, Hailemariam Desalegn, Olusegun Obasanjo, Greg Mills
12 Oct 2020
EVENTS
Watch The Webinar: Turning SA Around Province by Province
with Ray Hartley
EVENTS
Watch The Webinar: Can South African Tourism Be Saved?
with Ray Hartley
EVENTS
Watch the Webinar: Easing the Costs of Doing Business in Lesotho
with Ray Hartley
NEWS
How Covid-19 changed the way the world works
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
27 Aug 2020
NEWS
Why the ANC should back 'all-inclusive dialogue' on Zimbabwe's future
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
24 Aug 2020
NEWS
Steps towards a Smarter Lockdown: Game-Lodges
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
29 Jul 2020
PUBLICATIONS
South Africa's Greatest Economic Adversary...Itself - Finding Common Ground for Growth
Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
23 Jul 2020
NEWS
South Africa at a Fork in the Road
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
22 Jul 2020