JOHANNESBURG - Digital activism surged in South Africa this year, with four million new users signing up to online petition platform Change.org to support causes linked to coronavirus and sexual violence, the platform says.
The flip side is that online petition signatures grew tenfold from 2019 to 2020 -- 33 percent of which supported coronavirus-related causes such as job protection and access to mental health services. Herman said more South Africans were recognising the internet as a"tool" for"regular citizens who are not activists" to"step up".
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