Africa / South Africa · Politics

Protesters block Durban refugee reception centre over foreigner entry

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 16h ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 1
Countries: 1
Languages: 1

IOL South Africa · English 6 Oct, 12:21 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

The only language so far · English, 4 reports

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: IOL, 6 Oct, 12:21 UTC.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The one country whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 4 outlets · 1 country · 100%

First movers

IOL 6 Oct, 12:21 UTC
SABC News +23h 47m
TimesLIVE +38h 9m
News24 +42h 45m

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 1 country. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article IOL, 6 Oct 2026, 12:21 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 13:00 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 11:41 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Africa, South Africa. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.02, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Anti-immigrant protests turn violent in South Africa. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 6 Oct, 13:00 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 11:41 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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TimesLIVE South Africa 8 Oct, 11:41 UTC
WATCH | Protesters set scrapyard alight and march into Durban CBD
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- WATCH | Che Guevara rocked by chaos over foreigners again 8 Oct, 02:30 UTC
IOL South Africa 8 Oct, 08:00 UTC
HAPPENING NOW | Strong police presence as protesters block Durban Home Affairs centre
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News24 South Africa 8 Oct, 07:06 UTC
News24 | March and March disrupts home affairs operations in Durban
SABC News South Africa 7 Oct, 12:07 UTC
Tensions are high outside Refugee Reception Centre in Durban