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Universities Alliance South Africa - Official Updates

@UAOfficialUpdates

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141subscribers

-6 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001784254753
TypeChannel
Username@UAOfficialUpdates
CreatedBetween 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded8 August 2026
Last confirmed live11 October 2026
Measurements held8
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 11 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/UAOfficialUpdates

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 25 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 38% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

1411471447 August 2026 — 147 subscribers8 August 2026 — 147 subscribers23 August 2026 — 146 subscribers29 August 2026 — 144 subscribers7 September 2026 — 145 subscribers15 September 2026 — 144 subscribers30 September 2026 — 143 subscribers11 October 2026 — 141 subscribers7 August 202611 October 2026
8 measurements spanning 65 days, net -6. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 140–148 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
11 Oct 2026, 22:01141-2
30 Sept 2026, 22:17143-1
15 Sept 2026, 21:37144-1
7 Sept 2026, 05:21145+1
29 Aug 2026, 05:11144-2
23 Aug 2026, 06:04146-1
8 Aug 2026, 20:32147no change
7 Aug 2026, 11:29147first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 20 November 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 22 March 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
34s
Average length
17s

Measured directly from 2 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Reaction mix

61 reactions across 12 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 45.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤2845.9%
👍2744.3%
🔥69.84%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 12 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 61 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 20 November 2023 to 22 March 2024, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

21 Mar 2024, 05:40 UTC≈2,730 viewsread 8 August 2026

MSM coverage of UA vs UFS judgment - editor corrects false claims by UFS spokesperson after UA provides proof The following article regarding judgment in our legal challenge against the University' of the Free State's mandatory vaccination policy was brought to our attention by a parent. Several false claims were made by the UFS' spokesperson, including that the application had been "dismissed with costs" and was "…

21 Mar 2024, 03:59 UTC≈1,600 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Universities Alliance South Africa - Legal Update and Judgment - Web Link For ease of access and reading for those who do not use Telegram, we have created an online version of our latest update along with the judgment from our legal challenge against the University of the Free State's mandatory vaccination policy. Ultimately, although the judges acknowledged the strength of UA's case, they were unwilling to rule o…

👍2

18 Mar 2024, 07:55 UTC≈1,870 viewsread 8 August 2026
File

Universities Alliance South Africa vs University of the Free State - judgment UA has received judgment in its legal challenge against the UFS' mandatory vaccination policy. Ultimately, although the judges acknowledged the strength of UA's case, they were unwilling to rule on the policy's lawfulness either way, claiming instead that the policy and its consequences were historical and of no current importance. For f…

27 Feb 2024, 15:08 UTC≈1,940 viewsread 8 August 2026
Photo

27 February 2024 Universities Alliance South Africa addresses reports of alleged requests for vaccination status at universities In the event that you are asked for vaccination status to attend classes or register, or are aware of anyone to whom this has happened, email [email protected]. However, we also urge you to exercise caution and avoid sharing unverified claims regarding resurgences in vaccine mandates.

12 Feb 2024, 09:51 UTC≈1,870 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026
File

UNIVERSITIES ALLIANCE SOUTH AFRICA NSFAS ADVICE GUIDE Systemic problems in NSFAS (South Africa's national student loan scheme) plague thousands of students across the nation who depend on such funding for tertiary education. In response to requests from students, we have compiled a concise guide with suggestions for handling issues you may be experiencing with NSFAS, as well as information on alternative sources of…

❤2

29 Jan 2024, 09:48 UTC≈3,090 viewsread 8 August 2026
File

UJ vaccine mandate persists in 2024 Student Agreement A UJ student has notified us that the university's 2024 Student Agreement confirms the persistence of the UJ Mandatory Vaccination Policy, which, while currently suspended, may be reimplemented if the university believes there is "an adverse effect in the risk to our staff, students, and third parties". Attached is the document in question, as received by us. Re…

31 Dec 2023, 07:42 UTC≈2,220 views4 reactionsread 8 August 2026
Video

We wish you all a happy New Year, and all the best for 2024. - The Universities Alliance South Africa team

❤4

23 Dec 2023, 10:40 UTC≈2,640 views6 reactionsread 8 August 2026
Video

Merry Christmas. Thank you all for your support over the past two years. - The Universities Alliance South Africa team

❤3👍3

29 Nov 2023, 16:03 UTC≈3,390 views1 reactionsread 8 August 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QfskCUa4yQ&ab_channel=SABCNews

👍1

28 Nov 2023, 11:04 UTC≈3,240 viewsread 8 August 2026
File

Universities Alliance South Africa vs University of the Free State Post-hearing update 28 November 2023

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @UAOfficialUpdates. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 11 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Universities Alliance South Africa - Official Updates” (@UAOfficialUpdates), 141 subscribers as measured 11 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/UAOfficialUpdates.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.