

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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ANC beholden to magical thinking
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jul 30, 2023
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
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jun 3, 2023
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?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Apr 27, 2023
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
- By Marius Roodt
- . Apr 1, 2023
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

SA has the ingredients for lift-off – but will we get into orbit?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Nov 26, 2022
South Africans, on the whole, are at the end of their tether. This ranges from the wealthy suburbanite who is looking into emigration options to

ANC collapse could happen sooner than we think
- By Marius Roodt
- . Oct 15, 2022
The ANC stands astride South Africa’s politics like a colossus. To be sure, it’s not the force it was in the early parts of this

How we elect our leaders – time for a rethink?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Sep 23, 2022
Mmusi Maimane, head of the One South Africa (OSA) movement and erstwhile leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), confirmed this weekend that he would be

The folly of race-based policy
- By Marius Roodt
- . Aug 25, 2022
Race is South Africa’s eternal fault line. Nearly everything in this country is viewed through the prism of race, from who our politicians are, and

Will the ANC give up power peacefully?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Aug 13, 2022
Much ink is being spilled – not only here at the Daily Friend but elsewhere – on the fact that the ANC is perilously close

Buckle your seat belts, it’s about to get wild
- By Marius Roodt
- . Aug 2, 2022
It is now accepted wisdom that it is a matter of time until the ANC loses its national majority in the country. There is probably