From paintings by artists like Xolani Sivunda to communication campaigns launched by provincial health departments, the fight against Covid-19-related misinformation is being fought on many fronts. Spotlight surveyed some of these efforts and asked health and behaviour experts what does and does not work. Read full article
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) is based at UCTs Graduate School of Business established to track and counter mis and disinformation, fake news and divisive and polarising rhetoric that is promulgated online to undermine social cohesion, democratic integrity, and the stability of nation states. GUEST: Stuart jones – Director of Projects at...
Here are seven reactions to the above announcement EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has questioned the vaccine rollout; DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube welcomed the announcement saying “We cannot be complacent or sluggish”; and others have raised other valid concerns. Read the full story here:
From small pox in 1893 to the 1904 “Durban Plague” to the 1918 Spanish Flu to Covid-19 in 2020, South Africa has faced many scary viruses. Professor Philip Harrison, the South African research chair in spatial analysis and city planning at Wits’ Gauteng Regional City Observatory has done extensive research on past pandemics and believes...
A crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic creates a perfect opportunity for those who wish to cause confusion, chaos, and public harm – and mis- and disinformation enables them to do just that. This week we look at elections and the actions of Real411. Read full article
A new short film shows why xenophobic sentiment to foreign shop owners is misplaced. Somalian born spaza shop owner, Abdullahi Ali Hassan, talks about the role spaza shops played during lockdown (with regards to the response of food security), and continue to play in the communities in which they operate. They also contribute to our...
While Africa applauded the first announcement of a remedy for Covid-19, the West was sceptical. Developed countries joined the World Health Organisation in demanding scientific evidence that Madagascar’s herbal mixture actually worked. Read full article
No other continent has suffered the level of racism and prejudice that Africa has, write Cameren Peter and Shivani Ghai, and it continues to this day. Read full article
The Western Cape has had the most protest actions since the start of the lockdown between March 27 and July 31 Read full article
Bloated with corruption and fraught with internal intrigues and divisions, where normalised deviance is the compass that points to the way ahead, might it be that the body politic can no longer endure the ANC? Might it just be that the ANC’s comorbidities render it fated to an abrupt death in the face of the...
