Jacob Zuma will be a more powerful figure inside prison than he is outside it. That is because it is easier to construct heroic myths about a person who is not in the public eye, but resides in the public imagination. The network that has converged around the ex-president presents an existential threat to the...
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Protests snowball into crime
Watch the full interview with Camaren Peter on ENCA Protests snowball into crime
Smile FM, The Honest Truth. An interview with Praveen Naidoo
Smile FM, The Honest Truth. An interview with Praveen Naidoo a media manager for The Center for Analytics & Behavioral Change.
SA COVID-19 and Vaccine Social Listening Report 05 July 2021, Report 8
This is a weekly report of COVID & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social Listening. We aim to hear voices Read full article
Daily Maverick OP-ED: Disinformation, misinformation and barefaced lies: The online war of words in the Battle of Nkandla
Jacob Zuma and his supporters have wrapped their campaign around one big misrepresentation, which they unashamedly put into the public discourse at every opportunity: That the former president has done nothing wrong and is being persecuted for political purposes. Tentacles of disinformation have been developed around the big lie to strangle the truth. Read...
Citypress The Tembisa 10 and RET forces | Citypress
Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and others in their faction – known as radical economic transformation (RET) forces – have come out in support of journalist Piet Rampedi and Independent Media. Read full article
The Citizen RET or death: Is Gigaba perpetuating the faction narrative?
According to independent research, the idea of RET is being abused by ‘a handful of political elite seeking personal benefit’ on ‘suspicious’ Twitter accounts. Read full article
SA COVID-19 And Vaccine Social Listening Report 07 June 2021, Report 4 – SA Corona Virus Online Portal
This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social Listening and Infodemiology team. We aim… Read full article
SA COVID-19 And Vaccine Social Listening Report 14 June 2021, Report 5 – SA Corona Virus Online Portal
This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social Listening and Infodemiology team. We aim… Read full article
SA COVID-19 And Vaccine Social Listening Report 21 June 2021, Report 6 – SA Corona Virus Online Portal
This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social Listening and Infodemiology team. We aim… Read full article