HeCareZa Annual Report 2024
The HeCareZa Project Annual Report 2024 provides an overview of our initiatives, highlighting key achievements . Join us as we reflect on a year of progress. Read full report
Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny TikTok Analytics and Narrative Update in South Africa
Our final fact sheet for the year reviews GBV and misogyny content on the social media platform TikTok. Our findings indicate that a sizable conversation exists on the platform – with attention tied to major events, and linkages between outside media sources being a primary vehicle for the creation of short-form video content, which is …
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Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny 16 Days of Activism Narrative Update in South Africa
The 16 Days of Activism fact sheet provides digestible information on the state of the 16 Days campaign in 2024. Our findings indicate that, as per prior years, 16 Days struggles to capture the attention and engagement of individuals on the social media platform X – being driven predominantly by business, government and NGOs rather …
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Promoting Democracy and an Equitable Society: Xenophobia, spaza shops and allegations of food poisoning
In this special report we explore the conversation that took place concerning spaza shops and allegations that they were selling poisonous food. The report exposes instances of misleading information that is used to perpetuate stereotypes about foreign-owned spaza shops and outlines a pattern that appears to be prevalent through social and news media when accusations …
Social norms about gender on South African Twitter
This report offers an initial exploration into the perception and maintenance of gendered social norms in the South African context on X (formerly Twitter). The report explores norms related to masculinity, femininity as well as the LGBTQIA+ community. Our findings suggest further exploration into each individual ‘category’ is necessary, with preliminary insight indicating that Masculine …
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HeCareZa: ANNUAL REPORT 2023
The HeCareZa Project Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of our initiatives, highlighting key achievements . Join us as we reflect on a year of progress. Read full report
Smile 90.4FM: Digital Activism and Disinformation
Camaren Peters joins Benito Vergotine on Smile 90.4FM to talk about Digital Activism and Disinformation. They discuss the collusion between digital activism and disinformation, examining how it challenges democracy and reshapes modern activism.
Xenophobia Social Media Analytics Report 9
This report, the ninth in the “Promoting Democracy and an Equitable Society” series, focuses on discourse about immigrants in South Africa during the elections period. Read full report
Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny Social Media Analytics and Narrative Update in South Africa
The second in a series of factsheets concerning Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny analysed social media data from June 1 – 30 August. The report examines prominent topics and influential accounts in the conversation. Two key events in July and August 2024 concerned the Rapex device and Miss South Africa conversation. Additionally, the CABC found concerning …
Daily Maverick: Roman Cabanac punted nuclear deal on Rosatom freebie to Russia
Newly appointed chief of staff for the Ministry of Agriculture Roman Cabanac’s engagements with Russia are not only online. He was hosted in May this year by Rosatom, the state-owned Russian nuclear energy company. Read full article
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