In response to recent worldwide disruptions of major social media platforms, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, South Africa’s Minister of Communications, has championed the idea of a locally developed alternative. She cited the recent global outage of Facebook’s suite of applications as a wake-up call for the South African government to invest more heavily in the creation of South African-owned social media platforms.
This article was updated in 2025 to reflect modern developments.
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