

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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Little evidence that Cyril is a Ramareformer
- By Marius Roodt
- . May 9, 2020
Ever since Cyril Ramaphosa became president in 2018, after winning a bitter leadership contest with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, we have been told he is a reformer.

Lockdown reveals that we are governed by petty tyrants
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Apr 25, 2020
South Africa is now in its fourth week of lockdown, with an increasing number of commentators warning of an economic catastrophe unless something is done

Taking the long view
- By Marius Roodt
- . Apr 4, 2020
The world is in crisis and, for many people, it feels unprecedented. For those of my age who are too young to really remember the

BEE isn’t working – time for a rethink
- By Marius Roodt
- . Mar 7, 2020
South Africa is on the brink of an economic crisis. Some would say the country even faces an existential threat, as rumblings about Western Cape

Cricket, race, and obsessions
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jan 11, 2020
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
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Dec 30, 2019
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
- By Marius Roodt
- . Dec 14, 2019
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
- By Marius Roodt
- . Nov 9, 2019
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
- By Marius Roodt
- . Oct 26, 2019
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
- By Marius Roodt
- . Sep 21, 2019
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