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.
Articles By This Author
Cricket, race, and obsessions
If anyone thought 2020 would be the year when South Africans stopped being obsessed about race, they were wrong. The year began with more arguments
South Africa’s electoral system – time for a change
Weeks before the May 2019 election, a little-known organisation, the New Nation Movement (NNM), brought a case in the Western Cape High Court in support
Eroding property rights risks destroying the dream of ‘94
The government seems hell-bent on implementing a policy of expropriation without compensation (EWC) in South Africa, despite the very clear evidence that such a policy
Obsessive racial bean-counting benefits nobody
A bizarre piece of news came out of the Fairest Cape recently. It was reported that the Cape Cobras, the Cape Town-based franchise cricket side,
Liberalism – an ideology for all
Despite what some ‘progressives’ think, the broad liberal message of free markets, non-racialism, and rule of law has resonance far beyond any tea-sipping group of
SABC’s failures a microcosm of SA
It’s time the government began correcting its own failures instead of expecting the rest of us to carry the cost. By the time you read
Do not give in to the authoritarian urge
South Africa has been through a horrific few weeks, but we must not give in to populist temptation and jettison that which makes a decent
Conspiracy theories, everywhere you look!
But alarm about the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is not one of them. Around every major news event,
Is all lost?
Marius Roodt | Aug 24, 2019 Not if we stand up against bad policy now. South Africa seems to be at a precipice. Every day there is
What Micawber knew, and the ANC doesn’t
But the option that is open to the government is to use other people’s money to fund its mounting shortfall. Much everyday wisdom can be