Ray Hartley attended Queens College and Rhodes University, graduating with a BA Honours degree. He worked as an administrator at the constitutional negotiations, which ended apartheid. He has covered the unfolding drama of the new South Africa as a political correspondent who travelled extensively with Mandela and Mbeki and edited the Sunday Times, The Times and BusinessLive in South Africa. Ray is the author Ragged Glory - The Rainbow Nation in Black and White, The Big Fix - How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup and Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would be King. He is presently Research Director at The Brenthurst Foundation.