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Study blows lid open on xenophobic twitter network run by ulerato pillay

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JOHANNESBURG – Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is still fraught with xenophobic sentiment and tension teetering on the verge of exploding at any given moment. Sadly, a small network of faceless individuals have used this to capitalise on Twitter reactions, a new study …

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Xenophobic tweets likely an ‘organised network’ linked to one influential account, study reveals

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Users keen to continue spreading xenophobic content even create throw-away accounts or pay other people to spread content, according to an interim report released by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change. Read the full article here

We might well bury the ANC alongside our Covid-19 dead

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Bloated with corruption and fraught with internal intrigues and divisions, where normalised deviance is the compass that points to the way ahead, might it be that the body politic can no longer endure the ANC? Might it just be that the ANC’s comorbidities render it fated to an abrupt death in the face of the …

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Western Cape most plagued by protests since start of lockdown

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The Western Cape has had the most protest actions since the start of the lockdown between March 27 and July 31 Read full article

Values-based leadership in the age of COVID-19

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There has been some debate about the merits of shutting down the economy to stem a disease with a relatively low mortality rate, while many countries in Europe and Asia had no lockdown measures. Was the lockdown necessary? Read full article

How the great Covid-19 race debate played out on social media

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As initial unity over the pandemic fades, social media is now awash with polarising conversations. Read full article

The week in social media | 27 July – 02 August 2020

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Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. Remember we quote tweets verbatim so any grammar or spelling mistakes are as they appear in the tweet. Tito tells it like it is …

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The week in social media | 21 -26 July 2020

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GBV Reflections

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South Africa has some of the highest levels of gender-based violence in the world. The numbers tell us that men are more often than not the perpetrators, and women the victims: 46.6% of women report they have experienced some form of abuse from an intimate partner in their lifetime, and a women is killed every …

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The week in social media | 15 -20 July 2020

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Study blows lid open on xenophobic twitter network run by ulerato pillay

Xenophobic tweets likely an ‘organised network’ linked to one influential account, study reveals

We might well bury the ANC alongside our Covid-19 dead

Western Cape most plagued by protests since start of lockdown

Values-based leadership in the age of COVID-19

How the great Covid-19 race debate played out on social media

The week in social media | 27 July – 02 August 2020

The week in social media | 21 -26 July 2020

GBV Reflections

The week in social media | 15 -20 July 2020

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