A children’s theatre in Langa, Cape Town; built from what the city threw away.
Acoustically brilliant. Community built. The best architecture doesn’t always start with new materials.
📍 Langa, Cape Town 🇿🇦
Architects: CS Studio Architects with Georgia Tech, PBSA & RWTH Aachen
How credible is the data that supports what this tweet says? An how credible is the perception index?
1) source of the 4% teenage pregnancy?
2) source of the 4% immigration?
According to the Ipsos Perils of Perception index, South Africans are the most propagandised people in the world.
There is a huge gap between what they believe and what actual data shows.
In multiple versions of the Ipsos study, South Africa has ranked at the very top, meaning its citizens are among the most “misinformed” or “disconnected from reality” regarding the state of their own nation.
As Ipsos puts it, South Africans are the “most wrong” people in the world.
Worryingly, the disconnect isn’t just about minor details; it’s about the fundamental state of the country.
Data from various Ipsos studies shows how far off the public mark often is:
For example, when asked, most South Africans believe teen pregnancy is at about 44% of girls, when in reality it’s about 4%.
It’s a similar story with teen suicide, GBV, immigration, the murder rate, etc. South Africans simply believe things that are totally disconnected from reality, leading to a psychological crisis.
This crisis is largely due to how the media is set up.
We must remember that for decades before 1994, the media had one job: to distort the reality of what was really happening in the country.
Throughout Apartheid, the state used the SABC and strategic media “blackouts” to manufacture a “Total Onslaught” narrative, that is the idea that the country was under constant, existential threat. This created a high-anxiety public psyche that remains susceptible to fear-porn and sensationalism.
This media did not transform in 1994.
Therefore, South Africans are statistically some of the most pessimistic people on earth regarding their country’s direction.
While many problems are very real, this pessimism leads to catastrophism, where every problem is viewed as an omen of imminent total collapse.
This makes South Africans easy to mobilise against their own interests while expending a lot of energy fighting the wrong battles.
If for example, people believe immigrants are 30% of the population, instead of the real 4%, they focus an inordinate amount of time and resources on this rather than addressing structural policies of the state.
This leads to policy misdirection on many issues, not just immigration, where everyone is reacting to noisy perceptions rather than concrete problems, leading to phantom solutions that don’t solve the underlying issues.
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Nigerian Players visit South African Player, Gabriel Salgado at the hospital, after she sustained an injury.
She got injured during their Semi Final game at the WAFCON.
This was the moment i realized: Lt. Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi doesn’t do theatrics, he exposes truths. No fear. No surrender. For years, he’s called out corrupt Ministers who care more about profits than people.
On July 11, 2022, Mkhwanazi revealed that during the #JulyUnrest or #ZumaRiot multiple Ministers frantically called him, not to protect citizens, but to shield @SABreweries from threats. Their priority? Investments over lives.
Yet, not a single journalist demanded names. Not one questioned why these Ministers ignored the #PhoenixMassacre where Black lives were slaughtered, while rushing to save a brewery. Their silence was deafening.
#NoFear #TruthToPower.
#FamilyMeeting. #NationalShutDown