#SOBTA2020: Malambane Is The New President Of Black Twitter South Africa

Today black twitter community South Africa elected Malambane as the new Black Twitter President. The poll was conducted online by Black twitter community. Malambane has already appointed his cabinet of 10 ministers.

This evening, we gather here humbled by the memories of those men & women who gave up after MTN cut off free Twitter. However we welcome all who left Facebook to dwell on this blue app of ours.
There are times when we have fallen short, there are times when we have…#SOBTA2020 pic.twitter.com/vJvoSX5svb

— UmalambaneZN ➐ (@UmalambaneZN) April 20, 2020

Proceesing Comrades, I have chosen my Cabinet of 10 ministers and will give you the opportunity to nominate the remaining ministers because I believe in democracy which i will present tomorrow at #RipAdvovo farewell party. My hand picked cabinet is the following:#SOBTA2020

— UmalambaneZN ➐ (@UmalambaneZN) April 20, 2020

@TakaTina1 Deputy President pic.twitter.com/bc3Ts9524b

— UmalambaneZN ➐ (@UmalambaneZN) April 20, 2020

@uLerato_pillay Minister of International relations & Foreign Affairs pic.twitter.com/FNOG1hwfXA

— UmalambaneZN ➐ (@UmalambaneZN) April 20, 2020

Black twitter exits globally. As of 2011 Twitter has about 1.1 million users. The Black Twitter users in South Africa regularly add words from isiZulu, isiXhosa, and Sesotho languages in their tweets.

Below Are Prominent Hash Tag In South Africa Black Twitter

#FeesMustFall

It was the most significant hashtag in South African Black Twitter. It started with a student led protest movement that began in mid October 2015 in response to an increase in fees at South African universities. The protests also called for higher wages for low earning university staff who worked for private contractors such as cleaning services and campus security and for them to be employed directly by universities.

Black Students took to Twitter to report about the protest because they believed that the media was distorting their views and what the protest was about. One of the most retweeted tweets of the protest was “The Revolution Won’t Be Televised, It Will Be Tweeted”, the protest led to President Jacob Zuma of the ANC making a statement in December 2017 stating that free education would be rolled out for the working class as well as the low class, through a grant system.

#MenAreTrash

Hash tag #MenAreTrash became another prominent topic in 2017 on South African Twitter. Women of colour took to the social media platform to address numerous issues such as rape, patriarchy and domestic violence.