The youth of South Africa may have envisioned a very different reality for their country from what they have witnessed this past week. They need to appreciate that the painful past we carry is not going to heal itself and that the baton has now been passed to them. Read full article
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Paying attention to how social media is used – The Talking Point – SAFm
Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business Cameren Peter says it is becoming more and more important to shift our focus to the role of social media. This follows an admission by Defence Minister Siviswe Mapisa-Nqakula that information that had been making the rounds on these platforms ahead of the...
Citypress How social media fuelled the burning and looting | Citypress
We need to pay much more serious attention to the agitation taking place in cyberspace, writes Camaren Peter Read full article
Cii Radio 14-07-21 Yaum Un Jadeed With Zahir Bassa – Cii Radio
Yaum Un Jadeed – The imprisonment of Jacob Zuma is a failure of our politics not our institutions With Guest Camaren Peter journalist and writer of the article Listen to this by clicking here. Listen to the full interview
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...
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.
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...