Nigel Bruce

Nigel Strathearn Bruce (born 30 November 1942) Sanlam named him Financial Journalist of the Year in 1980, and he was awarded the Free Market Foundation's Free Market Award – for his "campaigning for economic and personal liberty" – in 1996.

In mid-1996, Bruce denied reports that he was involved in an attempted takeover of a rival magazine, Finance Week. However, in November that year, he resigned from the FM shortly after one of his columnists, David Gleason, became the major shareholder of Finance Week. He was succeeded as editor by Peter Bruce (no relation).

Later in November, Bruce became the editor of Finance Week, as well as a shareholder. He resigned from both positions in February 1999. He was elected to a seat in the National Assembly, representing the Gauteng constituency. After the DP formally launched the DA, a multi-party coalition in opposition, in 2000, Bruce was appointed as the DA's spokesman on trade and industry. He was also a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts; in April 2002, he was nominated for the chairmanship of the committee but lost in a vote to the New National Party's Francois Beukman. He left Parliament after the 2004 general election, in which he was placed in an unelectable position on the DA's party list.

At the DA's federal congress in November 2004, Bruce and Sheila Camerer were awarded the party's annual award for fundraising efforts. He later served as chairperson of the DA's international ancillary, the DA Abroad, until 2021.