Africa / South Africa · Politics

South Africa addresses gender-based violence and femicide crisis

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 10
Regions: 4
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Daily Maverick South Africa · English 27 Sept, 21:50 UTC

The earliest of 9 English reports

Read it also in Türkçe (1)

Read at Daily Maverick

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Daily Maverick, 27 Sept, 21:50 UTC.
Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 19:05 UTC.
Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 5 outlets · 1 country · 50%
Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 20%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
International 1 outlet · 10%

First movers

Daily Maverick 27 Sept, 21:50 UTC
Bloomberg +15h 10m
IOL +35h 40m
SABC News +39h
AllAfrica +41h 49m

Last to join

Cumhuriyet 29 Sept, 20:46 UTC
Sky News 29 Sept, 20:34 UTC
The Independent 29 Sept, 19:13 UTC
Mail & Guardian 29 Sept, 19:05 UTC
TimesLIVE 29 Sept, 16:55 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 10 outlets in 5 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 public-service, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: United States. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article Daily Maverick, 27 Sept 2026, 21:50 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 21:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 20:46 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 hard news. On 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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 South Africa president announces measures against gender-based violence; South Africa president orders crackdown on unsafe streets; Ramaphosa announces measures to address gender-based violence; President Ramaphosa orders urgent action on gender-based violence. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

29 Sept 2026 199 6.42 10 5 9 5 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 27 Sept, 21:50 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 20:46 UTC

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Covered by 10 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 1 outlet

Europe 2 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet

International 1 outlet