Greg Ardé

Greg Ardé is an award-winning journalist based in Durban, South Africa. He has written five books and has edited a number of business and lifestyle magazines. Read more

In the course of his 30-year career Greg has been worked in various media, including newspapers, radio and television.

He is published by Mail & Guardian, amaBhungane, News24 and Daily Maverick.

Greg is the former bureau chief of the Sunday Times in Durban and editor of a monthly magazine which appeared in that newspaper.

He was previously deputy editor of the Sunday Tribune, property editor of the same publication and business editor of The Mercury.

He was political reporter on the Daily News and worked for the South African Press Association in the run-up to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994.

In that time he covered political violence extensively. Greg has a national diploma in journalism from the erstwhile Technikon Natal.

As part of this, he served a year’s internship at the Daily Dispatch in East London and later ran the Dispatch's Umtata bureau. He is deeply committed to issues of justice, accountability and development and wrote a weekly column for 15 years.

Greg has a keen interest in the evolution of cities and in 2013 and 2014, contributed to the Resilient Cities series, an initiative sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Read more

Greg’s passion for politics, cities and development nurtured a curiosity in business and entrepreneurs and he has run three publications in that vein.

In the course of his career, Greg has also facilitated a number of roundtable talks aimed at improving education, economic development and job creation in Durban, the city he calls home.