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The Media: Mirror or Machete? The Role of the Media in Covering the Crisis (Part 1).

Associate Professor Camaren Peter, Executive Director of the CABC interrogates traditional and social media’s role in reporting, analysing and fueling the unrest with Heather Robertson, editor of Daily Maverick 168 and Herman Wasserman Senior Research Associate of the CABC. Listen to the full interview

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The Media – Mirror or Machete? The Role of the Media in Covering the Crisis (Part 2).

Associate Professor Camaren Peter, Executive Director of the CABC interrogates traditional and social media’s role in reporting, analysing and fueling the unrest with Heather Robertson, editor of Daily Maverick 168 and Herman Wasserman Senior Research Associate of the CABC. Listen to the full interview

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Twitter accounts that instigated mayhem and unrest in SA – The Clement Manyathela Show

Jesse Cann, Research Project Lead from The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change in UCT, spoke to Clement about the 12 Twitter accounts that became central to the instigation that caused mayhem and destruction as they spearheaded the call to release Jacob Zuma from prison. Listen to the full interview

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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

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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

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