Meet Dexter — the engine watching election coverage
A weekly view of how South African print, online, television and radio media cover the 2026 Local Government Elections — published openly, for anyone to explore.
The live dashboard
Open full screen →Data refreshes weekly across print, online, television and radio sources. Best explored on a larger screen — on mobile, the full-screen view works best.
What Dexter tracks
Who is getting heard?
The parties mentioned most, the people quoted most — filterable by party and by speaker gender.
What is being covered?
The ten topics dominating election coverage, as a share of everything published and broadcast.
How fair is the coverage?
Tone, source gender and geographic spread — with items assessed as fair or unfair against standards including balance of voices, right of reply and impartial framing.
Why we monitor
Media is the lifeblood of the democratic process. Moxii Africa monitors the media to provide all with information they can trust — because coverage shapes what voters know, and what voters know shapes the result.
Every week until the vote on 4 November, the monitoring behind this dashboard becomes a published brief: an evidence-based read on how the campaign is being covered, free for anyone to use.
Explore the weekly briefs
