

Marius Roodt
Marius Roodt is currently deputy editor of the Daily Friend and also consults on IRR campaigns. This is his second stint at the Institute, having returned after spells working at the Centre for Development and Enterprise and a Johannesburg-based management consultancy. He has also previously worked as a journalist, an analyst for a number of foreign governments, and spent most of 2005 and 2006 driving a scooter around London. Roodt holds an honours degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg) and an MA in Political Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Old certainties are crumbling fast
- By Marius Roodt
- . Feb 6, 2025
The world seems to be a chaotic place at the moment. President Donald Trump has wasted little time in upending much of what the world

Is cricket entering a death spiral?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jan 9, 2025
To the casual observer cricket may seem to be in fine fettle. Three gripping Test series were just concluded over the festive season, with Australia

Which way will Swapo go?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Nov 14, 2024
This year has been one of the electoral contentious years in history. There was an unprecedented number of elections, with incumbents either being voted out

Should Tshwane cast a shadow over the GNU?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Oct 17, 2024
There has been much concern in some quarters around the voting out of Cilliers Brink as the mayor of Tshwane and what this means for

Push back against South African Newspeak
- By Marius Roodt
- . Sep 19, 2024
Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most influential books written in the 20th century. George Orwell’s tale of a man, Winston Smith, fighting against a

Sport and race: time for mindsets to change
- By Marius Roodt
- . Aug 22, 2024
This past weekend was one of those that happens periodically, when one feels truly proud to be a South African. There were three big sporting

Maybe our glass is half-full
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jul 25, 2024
Negativity, pessimism, and despair have been three things that have been pretty common in South Africa over the last few years. Declining infrastructure, increasing murder

Time to back the DA in the GNU
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jul 13, 2024
After weeks of negotiations, South Africa finally has a government. The new Government of National Unity (GNU), made up of ten parties in total with

Could Southern Africa be facing a “pink tide”?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jun 14, 2024
In the early 2000s, elections across Latin America saw left-wing or centre-left parties voted into office. This phenomenon, which saw leaders such Brazil’s Lula da

High noon in Southern Africa 2.0?
- By Marius Roodt
- . May 11, 2024
In the 1980s, then American Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker wrote a book entitled High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough