Recorded in 2019 as “South Africa, future of the West.” — the title held for this same channel (matched by Telegram id, not by handle) in the Pushshift Telegram Dataset, a third-party archive captured in 2019-2020, years before this register made its own first observation. CC BY 4.0, Baumgartner, Zannettou, Squire & Blackburn (2020), Zenodo. A third party’s dated snapshot, not a measurement this register made itself.
Growth
5 measurements spanning 11 days, net -16. 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 5,930–5,950 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
16 Aug 2026, 16:28
5,932
-5
12 Aug 2026, 15:53
5,937
-5
9 Aug 2026, 18:12
5,942
-6
6 Aug 2026, 23:48
5,948
no change
6 Aug 2026, 04:05
5,948
first reading
Engagement
27 posts held, back to 22 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 9 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
18.0%
avg views ÷ 5,932 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,070
27 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.35%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
27
of 27 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 25 of 27 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 August 2026
Posts held
27 (22 July 2026 – 11 August 2026)
Views total
28,854
Reactions total
381
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
12 Aug 2026, 03:42 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Video runtime
3m 09s
Average length
1m 35s
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
377 reactions across 24 posts, in 20 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 21.0% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
🍌
79
21.0%
💯
62
16.4%
🌚
51
13.5%
😁
45
11.9%
👀
25
6.63%
👍
24
6.37%
👌
19
5.04%
🙈
16
4.24%
😡
14
3.71%
🤔
13
3.45%
👎
6
1.59%
👾
5
1.33%
🥴
5
1.33%
🤬
4
1.06%
✍
3
0.796%
👏
2
0.531%
🗿
1
0.265%
😐
1
0.265%
😱
1
0.265%
🤷♀
1
0.265%
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 25 of the 27 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 381reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 27 most recent posts we hold, published 22 July 2026 to 11 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
🎓🇿🇦 ANC stalwart says it is unacceptable to build an Afrikaans university
ANC stalwart and former Minister Naledi Pandor said that it was unacceptable to build an Afrikaans-medium university funded by the community.
Pandor shared her views on the new Akademia University in Pretoria during an interview with the African Renaissance Podcast.
In the interview, she said that the fact that a university intended to be A…
🚷 🇿🇦🇲🇼🇿🇼🇲🇿 The South African government repatriated and deported a total of 82 875 illegal immigrants between 29 June and 6 August.
This number was presented during a briefing to Parliament by the Department of Home Affairs and the Border Management Authority regarding the repatriation of undocumented foreign nationals after the recent increase in threats of violence against them.
https://www.youtube.com/live/o58bw…
Considering the tactics SARS uses to extract every cent from registered taxpayers to fund the gravy train, it would be silly for these ''unemployed'' to push their hustle economy into formal channels.
Actual unemployment is nowhere as high as reported. Most stick to cash only.
A good example of this is the minibus taxi industry. A R100+ billion a year industry paying only R5 million in taxes.
While the country’s official unemployment rate increased by 0.9 percentage points over the second quarter of 2026, the expanded unemployment rate remained unchanged from the first quarter at 46.3%.
The more it changes the more it stays the same.
One in three South Africans cannot find work – Daily Investor
https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/147946/one-in-three-south-africans-cannot-find-work/
SRD grant expansion could cost extra R93.5bn annually, Treasury warns
https://www.businessday.co.za/business-times/2026-08-08-srd-grant-expansion-could-cost-extra-r935bn-annually-treasury-warns/
🇿🇦🇺🇸 South African refugee arrivals update:
In July, a record 2528 South African refugees arrived in the United States bringing the total to 10 597. The previous record of 1570 arrivals in one month was set in April 2026.
@SouthAfricaReports
Diesel Adulteration is Quietly Damaging South Africa’s Economy – A Viable Solution is at Hand – MyBroadband
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/industrynews/661457-diesel-adulteration-is-quietly-damaging-south-africas-economy-a-viable-solution-is-at-hand.html
📊 New data has ANC polling at 34%
🟨🔽 ANC down from 39% to 34%
🟦🔽 DA down from 28% to 27%
🟩🔼 MKP up from 10% to 15%
🟥🔼 EFF up from 6% to 7%
📎 Source: The Common Sense
To think the PIC used to be the example for sustainable investment practices. Generating consistent returns for the State Pension fund.
Now its just another State run organisation being hollowed out by ''wasteful investment'' that generate zero returns.
🇿🇦 Godongwana moves to steady South Africa’s $220bn pension manager after governance crisis
South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has appointed a new board for the Public Investment Corporation on 30 July after a governance crisis triggered the suspension of its chief executive, the resignation of its chair and the collapse of its board. The PIC, which manages $220 billion in state assets, is Africa’s larg…
🇿🇦✡️ At his grandfather’s funeral this weekend, South African opposition leader Julius Malema appeared wearing a Jewish tallit and kippah as he once again called for the killing of White farmers.
📎 Europa
🌚20🤔10😡4🍌3🥴3👀2👾2🤷♀1
Showing the 12 most recent of 27 posts we hold for @ZA_future_of_the_West. 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.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 12,119 of 1,481,306entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 5 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
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 16 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“South Africa, future of the West 🇿🇦” (@ZA_future_of_the_West), 5,932 subscribers as measured 16 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ZA_future_of_the_West.
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.
