The tenth edition of Moxii Africa’s social media election monitoring series continues to come at a pivotal moment in the electoral calendar. At this stage, online conversation is less a running commentary than a view of what voters are weighing before they decide.
Campaign promises, claims about candidates, and arguments over the electoral process are competing for attention while many people are still making up their minds. Each vote cast on the 4th of November will help determine who runs the municipalities people live in, from the water in their taps to the roads outside their homes and the result will shape local government for the next five years.
As in previous editions, monitoring is conducted using Meltwater platform using the same keyword set covering Afrophobia and related mobilizations, service delivery and the South African elections more broadly. Keeping the keywords consistent allows trends to be compared reliably from week to week.
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