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Project spotlights the critical role of Fathers in the lives of their children
By Esther Schippers Positive relationships with fathers or male caregivers and an environment free of violence are hugely valuable investments…
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Unite against xenophobia
The CABC's team of analysts discovered that xenophobic narratives were on the increase after lockdown. The film, created by the…
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Democratic participation, civic education and the Government (GNU )
In this episode, Associate Professor Camaren Peter, Executive Director at the CABC sits down with Wellington Radu, who is the…
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Monthly Social Listening Updates & Recommendations for online conversations about immigrants in South Africa: June 2024
This report provides an overview of online conversations about immigrants in South Africa for the month of June 2024. This…
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SowetanLIVE Parly awaits bill on quotas for hiring foreigners
As the ANC in Gauteng rallies for quotas on hiring of foreign nationals, the portfolio committee on labour says it…
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SMILE FM The Honest Truth Euston Witbooi speaks about how anti immigrant sentiment
SMILE FM The Honest Truth Euston Witbooi speaks about how anti immigrant sentiment, May 4, 2023 Listen to the full interview
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Press release 6: Online elections conversation
The online elections conversation received more than 300,000 mentions between 2 April and 15 April 2024. The IEC's decision to…
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16 days of activism against GBV lost its lustre?
The CABC found analysed the online conversation during the 16 days of activism period last year. Researchers found that online…
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Impact Amplifier’s Africa Online Safety
Impact Amplifier's Africa Online Safety Fund Video by Google.org with Camaren Peter
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YouTube: Defend Our Democracy Launch of our Election Watch Campaign by Defend Our Democracy
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Bizcommunity: 62% increase in volume of mentions in online anti-immigrant conversations on X in SA
A Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change report found the volume of mentions in online anti-immigrant conversations on X in…
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Investors King: Impact Amplifier, Google Launch African Online Safety Platform
Impact Amplifier, with the financial support of Google.org, today launched its African Online Safety Platform (AOSP). The Africa Online Safety Platform…
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ITWeb Africa: African online safety platform launches in South Africa
The site offers a vast archive of research, educational content, funding opportunities, and ways to seek assistance if an online…
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Life: ‘Needed interventions’: Google teams up with local business to promote online safety in Africa
Impact Accelerator launched the African Online Safety Platform, thanks to funding from Google Read full article
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Social TV: Africa Online Safety Platform launched in SA – Social TV
Impact Amplifier, with the financial support of Google.org, today launched its African Online Safety Platform (AOSP). The Africa Online Safety Platform…
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SowetanLIVE: ‘Anti-immigrants disinformation before polls a red flag’
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has cautioned against the growing anti-immigration sentiments and the spread of disinformation…
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iol.co.za: ANC, Jacob Zuma and uMkhonto weSizwe the most talked about online
Most of the mentions have been the fracas between the ANC and its former president with as many as 85…
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BusinessLIVE: The evolution of values-based leadership
SPONSORED | Camaren Peter of UCT's Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership explains how our understanding of leadership has changed…
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South Africa’s Online Election Talk Heats Up
South Africa's online election conversation is heating up – and key points and concerns are emerging, according to the Centre…
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Peak Of The Week: South Africa’s weekly trends report: 27 August – 3 September
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and narratives identified in South African social…
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How social media fuelled the burning and looting
We need to pay much more serious attention to the agitation taking place in cyberspace, writes Camaren Peter Read full…
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Yaum Un Jadeed With Zahir Bassa – CII radio interview
Yaum Un Jadeed – The imprisonment of Jacob Zuma is a failure of our politics not our institutions With Guest…
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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…
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The Honest Truth: An interview with Praveen Naidoo
Smile FM, The Honest Truth. An interview with Praveen Naidoo a media manager for The Center for Analytics & Behavioural…
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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…
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The Tembisa 10 and RET forces
Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and others in their faction – known as radical economic…
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Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth
CABC MEDIA RELEASE Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth Research by the CABC has uncovered an…
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RET’s digital war of words: The fake online network hijacking the Twittersphere
A network of inauthentic accounts is twisting policy for its misinformation machine. read full article
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The RET Twitter campaign’s echoes of Bell Pottinger
CABC found 51 'suspicious' accounts perpetuating RET narratives, and put them through their internal analysing and visualisation tools. Read full article
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Pillars of misinformation: A closer look at the RET network
A network of social media accounts is abusing so-called radical economic transformation (RET) policy to peddle misinformation and create racial…
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ANC must reclaim ethical high ground and undergo total reformation of its leadership culture if it wants us back | Daily Maverick
Under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, the ANC government projected a leadership culture that was professional, diplomatic, disciplined and devoted…
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Fighting disinformation & fake news
SAFM Interview on countering disinformation & fake news online.
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‘Truth offensive’ needed to counter Covid-19 vaccine misinformation, says messaging expert
From paintings by artists like Xolani Sivunda to communication campaigns launched by provincial health departments, the fight against Covid-19-related misinformation…
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COVID-19 Truth offensive
A painting shows a sick man inside a hand sanitiser bottle, surrounded with human skulls. The painting is the work…
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Social media hype over Ivermectin is unproven and irresponsible – experts
SA's top vaccinologists, scientists and infectious diseases experts were adamant that Ivermectin would not be authorised until sufficient data proved…
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SA to receive a million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in January and 500,000 doses in February from the Serum Institute of India (SII).
Here are seven reactions to the above announcement EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has questioned the vaccine rollout; DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube…
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What can we learn from the pandemics of the past?
From small pox in 1893 to the 1904 "Durban Plague" to the 1918 Spanish Flu to Covid-19 in 2020, South…
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Caolan Robertson – Part 1 of 3. farmlands – The Making of a Misleading ‘Documentary’
Caolan Robertson (pronounced “kay-lin) was one of the central figures in making right-wing politics mainstream, he worked with people like…
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ru.ac.za – Media and journalism academics gather to learn to code and future-proof the curriculum
It was a week in which academics wrote poems with ChatGPT and learned computational methods to collect data from thousands…
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SA’s challenges fuel online anti-foreign sentiment | The Citizen
Camo-clad men attacked a Zimbabwean delivery man and threatened Pakistani shops in Kempton Park over the weekend. Read full artical
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Report warns of xenophobic rhetoric for political gain
Narratives that conflate xenophobic sentiments with patriotism on social media could be used by political parties ahead of next year’s…
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Data & Analytics on South Africa’s #NationalShutDown
In this episode of iAfrikan BYTES, we're joined by Molebogeng Mokoka and Euston Witbooi from The Centre for Analytics and…
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Study blows lid on xenophobic Twitter network run by ‘uLerato Pillay’
Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is still fraught…
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