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Daily Maverick OPINIONISTA: The imprisonment of Jacob Zuma is a failure of our politics, not our institutions
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
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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.
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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...
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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 the...
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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
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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
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Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth
CABC MEDIA RELEASE Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth Research by the CABC has uncovered an organised network of social media accounts posing as promoters of Radical Economic Transformation policy to peddle misinformation and social division. The network distributes high volumes of tweets using the cover of RET policy – but...
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How bots accounts are putting lives in danger during Covid-19 | Citypress
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of having access to factual information to enable people to make informed decisions on their health and safety. Read full article