This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations from 19 to 21June 2020. Global trends affecting South Africa are also featured. Download Report (PDF) Being Black The top two topics by volume over the...
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Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. Twitter fast becoming THE platform to report Missing Persons Recent trend reports have indicated a surge in notifications of missing people on Twitter. Tuesday...
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 17 June 2020. Global trends affecting South Africa are also featured. Download Report (PDF) Tale of two pandemics The top topic of the day on...
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations from 15 to 16 June 2020. Global trends affecting South Africa are also featured. Download Report (PDF) Born from protest Critical debates about race, gender and...
For the period of 10 June – 16 June the Protest Query run by CABC returned: 14 197 mentions. 6 382 unique authors were involved in the conversation. Using that query 27 separate protests were identified as having occurred in the past week within South Africa. This document provides some analysis and commentary on those...
This is a summary of the protests that occurred over the period of: 10 June – 16 June Summary of the Week: 27 protests were recorded. Discussion of motive 12 – Unknown Motive 6 – service delivery (5 of 6 related to electricity) 1 – Housing 5 – COVID-19 (4 related to public services, 1 to cigarettes) 2 – Black...
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE DOMINATING CONVERSATIONS #RIPTshego The brutal murder of Tshegofatso Pule, a 28 year old pregnant woman, trended most of Monday 8 June. The...
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations from 12 to 14 June 2020. Global trends affecting South Africa are also featured. Download Report (PDF) Femicide crisis Gender-Based Violence continued to dominate social media...
