State of the Nation

In recent months South Africa has been making international headlines for all the wrong reasons: from the massacre in the small mining town of Marikana, to the lavish spending on President Jacob Zuma's homestead and the brutal rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl. It makes sense therefore that more ...

The State of the Nation address delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday evening, and the drinking game that accompanied it, was Twitter's number one trending topic early on Friday morning. Renowned blogger Khaya Dlanga and South African radio shock jock Gareth Cliff had a big hand in spreading the ...

Governments around the world are embracing social media as a way of communicating with their citizens. The role of social media in political campaigning gained much credibility after the US election campaign of 2008, which saw President Obama swept all the way into the White House.By using the most ...