
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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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

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