National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure has confirmed that law enforcement agencies are on high alert following rumours of a national shutdown on Monday. Read full article
A WhatsApp group has emerged as the focal point for the eight days of riots and looting that claimed more than 300 lives and ripped R50bn out of a struggling economy. Read full article
Social media was used as an amplification tool, with images and videos used out of context to manipulate the public, deceiving people to believe that past events were taking place in the present. Read full article
In less than a month, 12 Twitter accounts became central to the instigation that caused mayhem and destruction as they spearheaded the call to release Jacob Zuma from prison. Read full article
The youth of South Africa may have envisioned a very different reality for their country from what they have witnessed this past week. They need to appreciate that the painful past we carry is not going to heal itself and that the baton has now been passed to them. Read full article
According to independent research, the idea of RET is being abused by ‘a handful of political elite seeking personal benefit’ on ‘suspicious’ Twitter accounts. Read full article
We need to pay much more serious attention to the agitation taking place in cyberspace, writes Camaren Peter Read full article
Yaum Un Jadeed – The imprisonment of Jacob Zuma is a failure of our politics not our institutions With Guest Camaren Peter journalist and writer of the article Listen to this by clicking here. Listen to the full interview
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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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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