Democracy Reports

The EFF and MK Party have remained popular within the online elections conversation, which garnered more than 350,000 mentions on X (formerly Twitter) between 1 and 17 March. Researchers also detected posts containing mis- and disinformation – aimed at casting doubt on the integrity of the IEC. Some proponents of the online anti-immigrant narrative also …

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The online elections conversation received more than 450,000 mentions between 12 and 29 February 2024. Among the biggest talking points were the announcement that elections would take place on 29 May and the removal of Western Cape Judge President John Hlope. Online debates were recorded between individuals who criticised the youth of waiting to be …

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The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change drew on five barriers analysing voter abstention to research the online elections conversation. These barriers include: personal and administrative barriers, political alignment, disillusionment with politics and performance evaluations. The conversation included debates on whether voting the ANC out would rid the country of corruption and by extension loadshedding; …

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The CABC’s snapshot of the conversation from 31 December to 30 January 2024, comprised nearly 500,000 mentions. The conversation was primarily retweet driven in this period, with 395,000+ recorded mentions or 83% of the conversation classed as retweets. This indicates a preference for the sharing of content from select voices, rather than the production of …

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This social media analytics report focused on corruption conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 May 2023 – 30 June 2023. The report found that the online corruption conversation can be divided into two broad camps i.e. the radical economic transformation (RET) network who do not acknowledge state capture and are ardent Jacob Zuma …

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