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. Remember we quote tweets verbatim so any grammar or spelling mistakes are as they appear in the tweet. The taxi strike and its many...
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 26 to 28 June 2020. Global trends affecting South Africa are also included. Download Report (PDF) Talking Corona Tweets about the grave impact of the COVID-19...
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 25 June 2020. Global trends which have an impact on South Africa are also included. Download Report (PDF) Pay to vote Conversations about the Miss...
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 24 June 2020. Global trends impacting on South Africa are also included. Download Report (PDF) Graveyard picnic Conversations about race yesterday invoked a poignant quote...
For the period of 17 – 23 June the Protest Query run by CABC returned: 15 912 mentions. 6 960 unique authors were involved in the conversation. Using that query 58 separate protests were identified as having occurred in the past week within South Africa. This document provides analysis and commentary on those protests, as...
This is a summary of the protests that occurred over the period of: 17 – 23 June 2020 Summary of the Week: Fifty-eight protests were recorded. Table 1: Civil Unrest Summary Protest 1 – Service delivery – Electricity On the 17th of June 2020, a group of residents from Zola North, Johannesburg, Gauteng staged a...
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 22 June 2020. Download Report (PDF) Taxi Strike Information about the taxi strike was widely shared on Twitter. This topic dominated conversation by both volume...
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...
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...
