Acumen Media has done a seven-day analysis of the top trending stories on social media this past week. Here are the 10 biggest stories:
#StateCaptureInquiry tops the pile this week with explosive headlines as we saw #RobertMcBride take the stand and #DCJZondo's brother has been implicated in #StateCapture.
It's rough out there as #elections2019 heads for its final weeks. SA protests, orchestrated or not, have caused chaos.
#Eskom puts #loadshedding back on the table leaving SA exasperated.
Rumours are rife that the #GaddafiMillions were hidden by #Zuma.
The DA walked straight into the #AlexShutdown trap as #Mashaba refused to see the residents. Yesterday #Ramaphosa brought many of the cabinet members to Alex in a political move that is bound to garner votes.
Pieter Louis-Myburgh's #GangsterState put #AceMagashule in the top 10 as the book launch caused such controversy.
International stories made the top 10 as SA rejoiced for #Sudan with the removal of #AlBashir.
Yesterday's #EffPresser brought #VBS back to the fore as #Malema insists the EFF did not benefit from the failed bank.
#IsraeliApartheidWeek and #IsraelElections put the country in the top 10.
#Xenophobia is still on the charts as African upon African violence continues.
