This is a high-level summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and narratives related to social cohesion and division as identified from South African social media conversations on 19 May 2020.
Lockdown levels in Gauteng was the biggest conversation by volume on Tuesday, with at least 2,338 mentions, in response to the change in lockdown level proposed for June. High infection rates reported in the Western Cape led to the province trending 8th by volume, with a burst of 74%.
A tweet by @LadyHe claimed: “Bloemfontein ONLY will remain Level 4 while the rest of Free State will move to Level 3 of lockdown.” This claim has not been verified. @News24’s 18:19 tweet that schools would be reopening on 1 June was the top tweet by reach, with 960 retweets, 2,400 likes and 1,481 comments, mostly critical of the decision to reopen schools.
@ZikesLatif referred to the now famous “zol” song: “Angie Motshekga doesn’t realise that when learners chew pens, they put saliva on the pens, and then they share those pens.” While most celebrated the effort, some questioned why this was not done sooner, and how the data would be used. The post was the 6th top post by reach, reaching about 135,000 people yesterday.
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