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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Why ANC electoral panic is a good thing
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?
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
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
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
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
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
ANC beholden to magical thinking
When it first appeared in 2006, Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret swept the publishing world. It has since gone on to sell some 30 million copies,
A tale of two elections
Elections were recently held in two countries which have some similarities to South Africa – Turkey and Thailand. And South Africans would do well to
Where are South Africa’s insurgent parties?
Dutch politics were shaken last month when a party, barely four years old, emerged as the single biggest in the country’s provincial elections. The BoerBurgerBeweging
How the ANC can get minority voters back
The news that the ANC is looking to woo white and other minority voters back as supporters was met with something approaching universal derision. Even