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 27 July 2020. Conversation about racism, xenophobia, inequality and identity gained significant traction on social media yesterday. Download Report (PDF) Protesting jobs Over the weekend,...
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 24 to 26 July 2020. Conversations about the ANC and EFF featured prominently on social media over the weekend, driven by the EFF’s seventh anniversary...
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 23 July 2020 Download Report (PDF) COVID Corruption The top three topics yesterday were “Cyril Ramaphosa”, “R500 Billion” and “Mr. President”. Discussions about the R500...
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 July 2020. Debate over the Black Lives Matter movement was rivalled by growing dissatisfaction over the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic yesterday. Building...
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 21 July 2020. Global trends impacting on South Africa are also included. Download Report (PDF) Succumbing The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic trended yesterday...
This 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 20 July 2020. Global trends affecting South Africa are also covered. Download Reports (PDF) Oppressed women Conversations about the oppression of black women trended on Twitter...
For the period of 14 July – 20 July 2020 the Protest Query run by CABC returned: 15 157 mentions. 7 516 unique authors were involved in the conversation. Using that query forty (40) separate protests were identified as having occurred in the past week within South Africa. This document provides analysis and commentary on...
This is a summary of the protests that occurred over the period of: 14 July – 20 July 2020 Summary of the Week: Download Report (PDF) A total of forty (40) protests were recorded. The table below shows a breakdown of the motives or issues that led to the protests occurring: Protest 1: Service Delivery...
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 17 to 19 July 2020. Download Report (PDF) Racist Proteas Racism in sport was a hot topic of conversation on Twitter this weekend, as South...
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 16 July 2020. Global trends impacting on South Africa are also included. Conversations around foreign nationals, inadequate resources for the health sector and black identity...
