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.
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The hypocrisy of sports bodies on global injustices
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jul 7, 2020
Test cricket returns this week with England and the West Indies clashing from tomorrow, in Southampton. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic there will be no
How to nip the Cape independence movement in the bud
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jun 20, 2020
Cape independence is an idea that is gaining increasing traction. Although it is dismissed by most as the notion of a lunatic fringe, if the
SA needs a political reset after Covid
- By Marius Roodt
- . Jun 6, 2020
There has been much talk about how South Africa needs an economic reset after the Covid-19 crisis. There is no doubt that this is true.
Muted criticism of government does everyone a disservice
- By Marius Roodt
- . May 23, 2020
One of the most fascinating things about the current lockdown has been how many in the media have fallen in line with the government, with
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 Marius Roodt
- . 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 Marius Roodt
- . 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