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The CABC is a non-profit company dedicated to fostering change
through building social cohesion in online communities.

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Building Tolerance, Active Citizenry, Informed Consumption Of Media And Social Media And Exposing Attempts To Artificially Manipulate Public Opinion.

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Our work spans civil and social justice issues as well as environmental issues of concern. View the range of projects we’ve worked on, below.

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SMILE FM The Honest Truth Euston Witbooi speaks about how anti immigrant sentiment

SowetanLIVE Parly awaits bill on quotas for hiring foreigners

Daily Maverick Climate change: A crisis and an opportunity for Africa

Just Energy Transition

Daily Maverick: Joburg fire disaster being used to fan flames of xenophobia ahead of 2024 elections

news24: X Premium, South African law and what it means for you

IOL: Hashtags showing anti-immigrant sentiment likely artificially manipulated – research finds

Webinar: Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)

OPINION | Camaren Peter: A tale of two countries – how SA’s psyche delineates along two dimensions

Daily Maverick – No matter what Elon Musk tweets about farm murders, two wrongs don’t make a white genocide

Blame ANC, not migrants for ills – Mashaba | The Citizen

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heCareZA Social Media Analytics Report 6

admin112 / November 30, 2023

The 6th heCareZA report unpacks two areas within online conversation about gender and misogyny during the month of September. The…

Xenophobia Social Media Analytics Report 6

admin112 / November 28, 2023

This report is part of a series of reports funded by the European Union (EU) as part of the Centre…

SMILE FM The Honest Truth Euston Witbooi speaks about how anti immigrant sentiment

admin112 / November 20, 2023

SMILE FM The Honest Truth Euston Witbooi speaks about how anti immigrant sentiment, May 4, 2023 Listen to the full interview

EU Xenophobia Report 5

admin112 / October 31, 2023

This report is part of a series under the title of Promoting Human Rights, Democracy and an Equitable Society, with…

Beyond Borders report

admin112 / October 31, 2023

The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change’s Beyond Borders report provides a three-year overview of xenophobia in South Africa. It…

SowetanLIVE Parly awaits bill on quotas for hiring foreigners

admin112 / October 10, 2023

As the ANC in Gauteng rallies for quotas on hiring of foreign nationals, the portfolio committee on labour says it…

Daily Maverick Climate change: A crisis and an opportunity for Africa

admin112 / October 2, 2023

While climate change presents as a dire threat to Africa and its peoples, it is also a critical opportunity for…

Just Energy Transition

CABC/EU heCareZA Report 5

admin112 / September 29, 2023

The 5th heCareZA report explores co-parenting and child abuse, value judgements based on dating behaviour, and the phenomenon of “simping”,…

Daily Maverick: Joburg fire disaster being used to fan flames of xenophobia ahead of 2024 elections

admin112 / September 7, 2023

Scapegoating and disinformation about the fire spread rapidly. Various politicians blamed illegal immigrants and civil society organisations who had no…

news24: X Premium, South African law and what it means for you

admin112 / September 5, 2023

A subscription-based service formerly known as BluTwittere, and now called X Premium, was introduced to allow anyone, not just celebrities…

IOL: Hashtags showing anti-immigrant sentiment likely artificially manipulated – research finds

admin112 / September 5, 2023

Johannesburg – In a new report, the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) found that the online conversations using…

Webinar: Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)

admin112 / September 4, 2023

The Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) present key findings from…

Online conversations about corruption in South Africa

admin112 / August 29, 2023

This social media analytics report focused on corruption conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 May 2023 – 30…

Xenophobia Social Media Analytics Report 4

admin112 / August 29, 2023

The fourth instalment of our Xenophobia & Migrancy reporting series makes use of Nimmo’s Coefficient of Traffic Manipulation (CTM) to…

OPINION | Camaren Peter: A tale of two countries – how SA’s psyche delineates along two dimensions

admin112 / August 19, 2023

Camaren Peter reflects on the cases on two women – Lauren Dickason and Bongeko Buso – and how the two…

Daily Maverick – No matter what Elon Musk tweets about farm murders, two wrongs don’t make a white genocide

admin112 / August 17, 2023

Elon Musk’s posts about a ‘white genocide’ and claims that white farmers are killed every day have no basis and…

heCareZA heCareZA Social Media Analytics Report 4

admin112 / August 3, 2023

This social media analytics report focuses on misogynistic conversations in South Africa covering the month of June 2023. We present…

Blame ANC, not migrants for ills – Mashaba | The Citizen

admin112 / July 6, 2023

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba emphasises complex socio-economic challenges and criticises corruption, mismanagement, and the breakdown in border policing. Read…