Say no to xenophobia hash tag campaign
Thousands of South Africans took the streets of Durban to assamblage against violance and xenophobia acts. The campiagn went viral to the country thanks to social media. The protesr occured on the 15 of April 2015. Communities joined the strike online using social media as their tool of communication spreading awerness throught the country about the protest which allowed leaders who organised the strike to send out the core message. People formed groups in sociak networks such as twitter:#saynotoxenophobia and #peacmarch, where people were enabled to voice out their opinions. South african police , civil rights groups and non gorvenmental organizations were part of the 10 000 people who participated in the protest.
This became a success through the usage of social media resulting the organisations of the protest to be achivable and active.
Social media have given out platforms to foreigners/ to voice out their grivience and fears in regards of the situation. This resulted in getting more Sout Africans to join in the #peachmarch voicing out their frustrations and anger agaisnt Sout Africans who are violating and killing innocent foreigners. The deluge of violant act has given rise to the hash tag campaign to serve condemenation of attacks being perpetrated in our country.
Regardless of all the helpsl social nedia has given to this hash tag campaign to stop violance and cenophobia acts in our country, some of our fellow citizens decided to be against of this campign and use social media as a tool to spread the violant a t around South Africa, by influencing more people to attack and spread xenophobia acts in the country. This was done by informing people about the transport arragement through social network. E.g it has been noted that inflamantory are being spread spread on social network inciting violant.
This has proven us that gone are thise days whereby peaople used to depend on media people to spread awerness and the message for them. Social media has played its role in making peoples lives easier by allowing us to market and advertise our campaigns without spending millions or rend to reach a huge amount of people and for tbe campaign to became a success. Gone are those days where communication was seen and used as a one way communication tool whereby journalist were the only people to send out to the public. Social media has cut lose all the ties allowing the public to voice out their opinions
Social media have given out platforms to foreigners/ to voice out their grivience and fears in regards of the situation. This resulted in getting more Sout Africans to join in the #peachmarch voicing out their frustrations and anger agaisnt Sout Africans who are violating and killing innocent foreigners. The deluge of violant act has given rise to the hash tag campaign to serve condemenation of attacks being perpetrated in our country.
Regardless of all the helpsl social nedia has given to this hash tag campaign to stop violance and cenophobia acts in our country, some of our fellow citizens decided to be against of this campign and use social media as a tool to spread the violant a t around South Africa, by influencing more people to attack and spread xenophobia acts in the country. This was done by informing people about the transport arragement through social network. E.g it has been noted that inflamantory are being spread spread on social network inciting violant.
This has proven us that gone are thise days whereby peaople used to depend on media people to spread awerness and the message for them. Social media has played its role in making peoples lives easier by allowing us to market and advertise our campaigns without spending millions or rend to reach a huge amount of people and for tbe campaign to became a success. Gone are those days where communication was seen and used as a one way communication tool whereby journalist were the only people to send out to the public. Social media has cut lose all the ties allowing the public to voice out their opinions
