South Africa
News coverage about South Africa accounts for 0.379% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of October 4, 2026. Output is down 21.1% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.10 — neutral-to-positive.
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Coverage volume, last 90 days
Coverage tone, last 90 days
Event activity (CAMEO-coded)
Protests (13/day latest)
Diplomacy (3/day latest)
Coercion & force (67/day latest)
CAMEO-coded events geolocated to South Africa, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).
Coverage origin: local vs international
Over the last two weeks, 24% of the coverage about South Africa came from outlets based in South Africa — the rest was written from abroad (16,659 articles with a known outlet home country).
Share of articles about South Africa produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.
Most-mentioned places
- Johannesburg (7)
- Port Natal (6)
- Pretoria (5)
- Kwazulu (4)
- Cape Town (3)
- Durban (3)
- Port Elizabeth (3)
- River Sea (2)
- Kashmir (1)
- Stellenbosch (1)
- Sebastopol (1)
- Brooklyn (1)
Places named in coverage about South Africa on 2026-10-04 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).
Active topics in coverage about South Africa
Country indicators
Armed conflict, trailing 12 months
Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-10-01..2026-09-30, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.
Displacement, end of 2025
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.
Coverage share measures articles published by South Africa-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).