Facebook users could not get enough news on elections and Senzo Meyiwa on the SABC News Facebook page in 2014.
According to Facebook Insights, this year’s national elections and the murder of the Bafana Bafana captain dominated with user engagement figures. However, it was a post on Khulubuse Zuma arriving for President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration ceremony that took the top spot on the Facebook page.
Other top engaged user posts included posts on Generations, Pastor TB Joshua as well as a status on Zuma’s birthday.
The SABC News Facebook page features consistently within the top South African news pages on the social network platform. The page currently has well over 190,000 likes.
The top 10 engaged user posts for the SABC News Facebook page in 2014 are as follows:
1. Businessman Khulubuse Zuma arrives for his uncle’s #inauguration ceremony at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. (Photo)
2. President Jacob Zuma is celebrating his 72nd birthday today. What is your message to him? (Status)
3. MMSV Productions says it has terminated the contracts of the striking actors of the SABC1 soapie drama, Generations. (Photo)
4. The first election results on the SABC elections website. Visit http://elections.sabc.co.za/ for more results (Photo)
5. A Nigerian has told SABC that Pastor TB Joshua handed out envelopes, each containing 50 000 Naira or over R3300, to journalists to try and bribe them. (Photo)
6. The Independent Electoral Authority is probing reports that hundreds of dumped ballots have been found in Lynnwood Ridge in Pretoria and Diepsloot outside Johannesburg. (Photo)
7. “Kelly Khumalo and her family would like to express their sincere condolences to the Meyiwa family for the loss of Senzo Meyiwa…” (Status)
8. Senzo Meyiwa’s girlfriend Kelly Khumalo has issued a statement about his death. (Photo)
9. A week after Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot and killed; debates about whether South Africa should bring back the death penalty have once again resurfaced. What is your view on this issue? (Photo)
10. The ANC in Gauteng has confirmed that a man pictured in newspapers wearing an ANC bib and holding a gun during clashes in Bekkersdal west of Johannesburg is a member of the party. (Photo)
– By Tegan Bedser, SABC
