This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations from 17 to 19 July 2020.
: “Mate… it’s easy to perform when you’re servicing the smallest population and designing a system that only benefits a few. ANC is doing it but please don’t overlook history” .“Service Delivery couldn’t be a problem if the apartheid government were only catering to the needs of about 20% of the population”.Conversations about oppression and racial injustice dominated social media conversations, driven by the celebration of International Nelson Mandela Day and tributes for John Lewis.
: “Not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful, remarkable way. John Lewis did.” This received considerable attention with over 103,500 retweets and 454,400 likes.: “A reminder that John Lewis, a giant of the civil rights movement, was beaten within an inch of his life on what is still known as the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Pettus was a grand dragon in the KKK. It should be the John Lewis Bridge. Rename the damn bridge.
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