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<\/a>Google Trends on protests<\/p><\/div>\n
Notably, using the Google Trends tool, it’s clear that two names spiked over the course of the protest week – Adam Habib and Blade Nzimande.<\/p>\n
On average, President Jacob Zuma will dominate South African search over the course of the week by some margin. However, during the rise of the Wits protest, Vice-chancellor Habib’s name spiked to be almost on par with Zuma searches.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the student protest hitting parliament, minister of higher education, Blade Nzimande’s name spiked in searches far above Zuma.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Google Trends on high profile persons<\/p><\/div>\n
Students across the country are currently engaged in protest action at their respective universities, standing against proposed increases in fees for next year.<\/p>\n
The demonstrations erupted at the University of the Witwatersrand last week, and quickly spread to other institutes across the country, including Stellenbosch, Rhodes and the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The protests moved on to take the fight to the politicians, marching on Parliament on Wednesday (21 October), while Finance Minister Nhalnhla Nene was giving his mid term budget speech.<\/p>\n
Again, despite the usual weight given to this speech, the #FeesMustFall protest dominated discourse in the country.<\/p>\n
While President Jacob Zuma said will be addressing students on Friday (23 October),\u00a0protests at campuses across the country continued on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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