Entity

South Africa

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 29 coverage verticals, including Auto, Africa and India South Asia.

As of 29 Oct 2026Last evidence 28 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • South African activists push back on data centre rush

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • South Africa claims 7.6 kilometer-long freight train is the longest ever

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Australia versus South Africa LIVE: Double breakthrough - Aussies strike in crucial patch after lunch on captivating day one

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • South Africa Proposes New Crypto Rules to Tighten Cross-Border Capital Controls

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • South Africa: Mashatile to Visit Bronkhorstspruit Over Contaminated Water - South African News Briefs - October 26, 2026

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 7 events and claims involving South Africa

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 88 mentions on 29 Oct 2026, against 83 on 8 Oct 2026 (+6%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 17 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 28 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,486 documents · 296 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 28 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.057: about 94% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside South Africa

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AfricaIndiaImmigrationChinaUnited StatesUnited KingdomNigeriaAI
  • Africa · 2,486 shared documents
  • India · 420 shared documents
  • Immigration · 379 shared documents
  • China · 370 shared documents
  • United States · 355 shared documents
  • United Kingdom · 342 shared documents
  • UN · 329 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Nigeria · 328 shared documents
  • AI · 320 shared documents
  • Johannesburg · 305 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 88 mentions on 29 Oct 2026 with 83 on 8 Oct 2026 (+6%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +22% from 14 Sept 2026 to 29 Oct 2026, between 12 and 142 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions South Africa, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about South Africa yet. Ask about South Africa

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving South Africa

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • South African activists push back on data centre rush

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • South Africa claims 7.6 kilometer-long freight train is the longest ever

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Australia versus South Africa LIVE: Double breakthrough - Aussies strike in crucial patch after lunch on captivating day one

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Africa Proposes New Crypto Rules to Tighten Cross-Border Capital Controls

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Africa: Mashatile to Visit Bronkhorstspruit Over Contaminated Water - South African News Briefs - October 26, 2026

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • South African rand steady with local economic data, Fed decision in focus

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • South Sudan, Ethiopia and Rwanda rank among world's fastest-growing economies in 2026, outpacing Nigeria, South Africa, China and the US

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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South Africa

Entity.

Evidence
2,486 documents · 296 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 16 Aug 2026, last seen 28 Oct 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
29 Oct 2026
17 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (7)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names South Africa, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 17 Oct 2026.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 29 Oct 2026.