Elections 2024 | Social media influence on elections

As South Africa gears up for the general elections on May 29th, the role of social media has become a focus area.

Sanef is among several bodies demanding a level of regulation to ensure that there is no disinformation that could undermine the elections.

But tonight, we ask whether social media had not indeed influenced a great number of people’s political decisions.

To discuss this is Tshepo Matseba, Reputation 1st MD.

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Musk vs Malema: Social media outrage against controversial slogan ‘kill the Boer’

elon musk malema – Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of X, the company that formerly operated as Twitter, has accused EFF leader Julius Malema of inciting the genocide of white people in South Africa. In a brief but spirited exchange on the social media network in the morning of Monday, July 31st, 2023, Musk criticised Malema for singing the controversial anti-colonialist anthem “Kill the Boer” at the party’s 10th-anniversary rally at Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium attended by tens of thousands of his party’s supporters over the weekend. He bashed Malema for “openly pushing for the genocide of white people in South Africa” and questioned South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s silence on the subject as well in a post on X.
Benny Johnson, an American political commentator and YouTuber, tweeted: “Shocking video shows South Africa’s black party singing ‘kill the Boer (whites), get rid of the white farmer’. This is all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness and CRT [critical race theory] plaguing America today. You have been warned.”
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Importance of a social media charter launched by SAHRC: Dr Eileen Carter

The South African Human Rights Commission has launched a social media charter in the Eastern Cape. The commission says it has noted with concern the high level of disharmony that continues to divide the country through social media posts. The Social Media Charter will serve as a guide to all social media users.

For more, we are joined by the South African Human Rights Commission’s Eastern Cape Provincial Manager Dr Eileen Carter.

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Social media trends with Lorato Tshenkeng

Turning our attention now, to the big trends of the week with Lorato Tshenkeng.Let’s start with the freshest trend – hot on the speaking trail, it wasn’t Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan’s speech on the future of state-owned entities at the Wits School of Governance, that captured attention it was a group of hecklers – he stood his ground but had to be whisked away – how was it handled on the socials? Let’s talk about another minister – this time Police Minister Bheki Cele facing off with the director of civil rights lobby group Action Society, Ian Cameron in what I’m calling shut-up gate – share the details and how the conversation was shaped? Both names trended.

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Coronavirus: SA social cluster ministerial committee 21 day lockdown media briefing

An inter-ministerial committee will brief the media today on details of government interventions following President Ramaphosa’s announcement of the 21 day lockdown in South Africa amid spread of COVID-19.#CoronaVirusSA

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