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
The Media – Mirror or Machete? The Role of the Media in Covering the Crisis (Part 2). Read More »
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
Twitter accounts that instigated mayhem and unrest in SA – The Clement Manyathela Show Read More »
Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business Cameren Peter says it is becoming more and more important to shift our focus to the role of social media. This follows an admission by Defence Minister Siviswe Mapisa-Nqakula that information that had been making the rounds on these platforms ahead of the
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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
RET or death: Is Gigaba perpetuating the faction narrative? Read More »
We need to pay much more serious attention to the agitation taking place in cyberspace, writes Camaren Peter Read full article
How social media fuelled the burning and looting Read More »
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
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Watch the full interview with Camaren Peter on ENCA here.
Protests snowball into crime Read More »
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has uncovered traces of the RET forces network that participated in and aided the amplification of online incitement of violence that claimed hundreds of lives and brought thousands of businesses to their knees in the week of 11 July 2021. Download Report (PDF)
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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