Marius Roodt
Marius Roodt is a writer and researcher based in Johannesburg. He was formerly the Deputy Editor of the Daily Friend and an analyst at the Institute of Race Relations. He has also worked as a journalist, an analyst for a number of foreign governments, a policy researcher for a think tank, and for a management consultancy, 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.
Articles By This Author
Race obsession hobbles South Africa
Recent events again show how South Africans – or at least those in the chattering classes – remain obsessed with race, to South Africa’s detriment.
How to eat an elephant: the slow demise of the ANC
As the saying goes, the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. And the same goes for ending the ANC’s electoral
What kind of country do we want to be?
Imagine, if you will, South Africa as an influential and technologically advanced member of an alliance of the world’s most powerful nations which act as
Will the ANC become a zombie?
It seems clear that we are now entering the beginning of the end with regard to African National Congress (ANC) rule in South Africa. Although
Ramaphosa’s Rand Revolt moment
The job of a historian is to discern links between seemingly unrelated events. Some would argue that the decision by the Americans to support Islamist
Want to save South Africa? Save her cities
Stories about the decline of South Africa’s rural towns have been common for some time. But we are now seeing that even South Africa’s great
Is racism the problem?
Many in the chattering classes will tell you the ‘Rainbow Nation’ – a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to describe South Africa in all
South Africa’s almost non-existent thin blue line
The news that newly proposed firearms legislation would no longer recognise self-defence as a valid reason to own a firearm, has been met with anger,
South Africa’s political landscape – portents for October?
South Africa is heading to elections in October to choose new municipal governments across the country (assuming that they aren’t postponed as a consequence of
Which has aged better?
Throwing Copper, the album by the rock band, Live, was released on 26 April 1994, the day before South Africa’s first all-race election, making democratic