Marius Roodt

The ANC used to stand astride South Africa like a colossus. At its zenith in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was easily the

The term ‘developmental state’ has become part of the South African lexicon. As I recall, it first became commonly used around the time of the

There are few certainties in life, apart from death and taxes, but there is something else that is a growing certainty in South Africa. This

Sometimes politicians say things that confirm what we know about them. It may be a throwaway remark or a pattern of language, but once people

The ANC got a bloody nose on Wednesday, losing two wards in by-elections, while retaining one ward in eThekwini. The DA held on to a

Coalitions are increasingly becoming a fact of South African political life. Until a few years ago very few of South Africa’s municipalities were governed by

Emigration is a perennial topic among middle-class South Africans, and in the last few years it seems more people (of all races) have been considering

A new electoral system is on the cards for South Africa, but what has been proposed is, frankly, a mess. The new system will be

By now we all know the numbers and the scale of the crisis that South Africa faces. On the expanded rate of unemployment, nearly 50%

The recent local government elections resulted in a number of watershed moments for South African politics, notably the decline of the ANC’s share of the