

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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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

Why ANC electoral panic is a good thing
- By Marius Roodt
- . Feb 24, 2024
South Africa has already started the electoral silly season. Manifestos are being launched, promises are being made, and voters are being assured that things will

Can the MK Party make an impact?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jan 22, 2024
This election cycle has seen a plethora of parties emerging to challenge the ANC, which, in democratic South Africa, has never been in a weaker

How politicking in cricket leads to pencil tests
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jan 13, 2024
It’s not often that the name of the U/19 Proteas captain is in the headlines. At the end of last year this was the case,

Lessons from Georgia
- By Marius Roodt
- . Oct 28, 2023
In life, things are rarely simple. It is not often that any issue or situation can be seen in simple black-or-white or either-or terms, where

SA should look to India, not Russia or China
- By Marius Roodt
- . Sep 25, 2023
South Africa seems to be gradually drifting out of the Western orbit. Its, at least implicit, support for Russia in its current attack on Ukraine

DA should dismiss coalition with ANC
- By Marius Roodt
- . Aug 12, 2023
The possibility of the DA and the ANC forming a ‘grand’ coalition after next year’s election is once again being spoken about by a number