Mapping #FeesMustFall across the country

Fees Must Fall (#FeesMustFall) is 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. 

Protests started at the University of Witwatersrand and spread to the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University before rapidly spreading to other universities across the country

eNCA created a map of this week's protest action across the country. You can explore all the participating institutions' events here

 Photo:  eNCA / Jessica Mulder

 Photo: eNCA / Dianne Hawker & Jessica Mulder

Mapping Gang Warfare

Google maps  showing London's Turf Wars 

Gangs have been operating around the world since the 17th century and now in the 21st century are considered one of the most serious crime problems in most cities around the world.  Californian Justice Department consider criminal street gangs to be the single largest threat to public safety.  Traditionally gangs were formed by groups of similar backgrounds and motivations coming together in a neighbourhood or territory, but now with social media being so prevalent in all our lives, the internet is now being used as recruitment as well as bragging platforms which means they have now become global enterprises, according to Dr Robert Muggah of the SevDev Foundation.  

The SevDev Foundation use this the gang's online activity to monitor activity as it would seem that the majority of the gangs do not disable the geolocations on their twitter and facebook postings, making it possible to track their online activity to a specific place.

Read Drugs, guns and selfies: Gangs on Social Media for the full article.

ESRI's Rugby World Cup Map Tour

Twickenham Stadium

Rugby surely has to be the most popular topic of social conversation anywhere in the world right now and given that ESRI products have over 40% global market share, it's not surprising that they have combined the two and come up with an informative map tour of the tournament, featuring the highlights, the stadiums and info stats on the various teams.

Tournament Highlights