Rayne Kruger: Meet South African Writer And His Remarkable Life
Posted on September 4, 2026 by Harriet Whitmore
Rayne Kruger was a South African-born writer, historian and property developer. He wrote the best-selling Boer War history, Goodbye Dolly Gray, and later became the business brain behind his wife Prue Leith’s restaurant empire. He died in December 2002, aged 80. KEY POINTS Born Charles Rayne Kruger on 29 January 1922 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. […]