Empowering citizens in the digital age.

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

Our Projects

Working For Democracy.

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

Our projects

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.

Our Projects

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Countering Misogyny
Xenophobia

Making impact through content

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

Scapegoating and disinformation about the fire spread rapidly. Various politicians blamed illegal immigrants and civil society organisations who had no…
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news24: X Premium, South African law and what it means for you

A subscription-based service formerly known as  BluTwittere, and now called X Premium, was introduced to allow anyone, not just celebrities…
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IOL: Hashtags showing anti-immigrant sentiment likely artificially manipulated – research finds

Johannesburg – In a new report, the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) found that the online conversations using…
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Webinar: Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)

The Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) present key findings from…
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Online conversations about corruption in South Africa

This social media analytics report focused on corruption conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 May 2023 – 30…
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Xenophobia Social Media Analytics Report 4

The fourth instalment of our Xenophobia & Migrancy reporting series makes use of Nimmo’s Coefficient of Traffic Manipulation (CTM) to…
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OPINION | Camaren Peter: A tale of two countries – how SA’s psyche delineates along two dimensions

Camaren Peter reflects on the cases on two women – Lauren Dickason and Bongeko Buso – and how the two…
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Daily Maverick – No matter what Elon Musk tweets about farm murders, two wrongs don’t make a white genocide

Elon Musk’s posts about a ‘white genocide’ and claims that white farmers are killed every day have no basis and…
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heCareZA heCareZA Social Media Analytics Report 4

This social media analytics report focuses on misogynistic conversations in South Africa covering the month of June 2023. We present…
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Blame ANC, not migrants for ills – Mashaba | The Citizen

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba emphasises complex socio-economic challenges and criticises corruption, mismanagement, and the breakdown in border policing.   Read…
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ru.ac.za – Media and journalism academics gather to learn to code and future-proof the curriculum

It was a week in which academics wrote poems with ChatGPT and learned computational methods to collect data from thousands…
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Xenophobia Social Media Analytics Report 3

This social media analytics report focused on xenophobic conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 May 2023 – 01…
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Reviewing Twitter Blue in South Africa

Popular social media platform Twitter has undergone a number of changes since Elon Must took ownership last year. Among these…
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HeCareZa Social Media Analytics: Report 3

This social media analytics report focused on xenophobic conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 March 2023 – 31…
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SA’s challenges fuel online anti-foreign sentiment | The Citizen

Camo-clad men attacked a Zimbabwean delivery man and threatened Pakistani shops in Kempton Park over the weekend. Read full artical
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Report warns of xenophobic rhetoric for political gain

Narratives that conflate xenophobic sentiments with patriotism on social media could be used by political parties ahead of next year’s…
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Xenophobia Social Media Analytics: Report 2

This social media analytics report focused on xenophobic conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 March 2023 – 31…
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Data & Analytics on South Africa’s #NationalShutDown

In this episode of iAfrikan BYTES, we’re joined by Molebogeng Mokoka and Euston Witbooi from The Centre for Analytics and…
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Social media ‘guns for hire’ – Xenophobic rhetoric intended to manipulate SA

It appears, according to a report, that social media discussions on xenophobia are being manipulated, and that around 80 dormant…
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Study blows lid on xenophobic Twitter network run by ‘uLerato Pillay’

Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is still fraught…
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