Marius Roodt
Marius Roodt is a writer and researcher based in Johannesburg. He was formerly the Deputy Editor of the Daily Friend and an analyst at the Institute of Race Relations. He has also worked as a journalist, an analyst for a number of foreign governments, a policy researcher for a think tank, and for a management consultancy, 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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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
Did AI write the MK Party manifesto?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Mar 16, 2024
The MK Party has burst onto the South African political scene, and is possibly the biggest disruption to our post-1994 politics. Some polls have it
Guard can’t be let down when it comes to bad policy
- By Marius Roodt
- . Mar 3, 2024
A recurring trope in horror movies is when the villain or antagonist returns from the dead. Our heroes will think they have dealt with the