Channel

Dear South Africa

@dearsafrica

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6,130subscribers

-11 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID	-1001284344019
Type	Channel
Username	@dearsafrica
Created	10 February 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded	6 August 2026
Last confirmed live	12 August 2026
Measurements held	5
Confirmed unchanged	1 time, most recently 12 August 2026
On Telegram	t.me/dearsafrica

Growth

5 measurements spanning 6 days, net -11. 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 6,128–6,143 and does not start at zero.

Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)	Subscribers	Change
12 Aug 2026, 17:15	6,130	-2
9 Aug 2026, 20:58	6,132	-6
7 Aug 2026, 01:28	6,138	-3
6 Aug 2026, 10:31	6,141	no change
6 Aug 2026, 09:53	6,141	first reading

Engagement

31 posts held, back to 28 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: 20.6%; avg views ÷ 6,130 subscribers
Avg views / post: 1,260; 31 posts measured
Reaction rate: 1.60%; reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window: 31; of 31 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.

What these figures were computed from
Window	Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 August 2026
Posts held	31 (28 July 2026 – 11 August 2026)
Views total	39,198
Reactions total	627
Forwards / comments	not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken	12 Aug 2026, 03:29 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.

Reaction mix

627 reactions across 31 posts, in 23 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 24.7% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction	Count	Share
🤬	155	24.7%
❤	85	13.6%
🖕	56	8.93%
💩	48	7.66%
😡	33	5.26%
🤡	33	5.26%
🔥	32	5.10%
🍌	30	4.78%
👏	26	4.15%
🤮	20	3.19%
🥱	17	2.71%
😁	14	2.23%
👍	11	1.75%
👎	11	1.75%
🙏	11	1.75%
😢	10	1.59%
💅	8	1.28%
💊	8	1.28%
🤔	8	1.28%
🤣	6	0.957%
3 further kinds	5	0.797%

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 31 of the 31 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 627reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 31 most recent posts we hold, published 28 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.

Recent posts

11 Aug 2026, 12:04 UTC606 views11 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 BIG CHANGE TO ELECTRICITY BILLS IN SOUTH AFRICA PLANNED South Africa's cabinet has approved the Revised Electricity Pricing Policy for public consultation to enhance transparency in billing and address funding leakage in municipal subsidies. The new framework aims to unbundle electricity costs and increase the Free Basic Electricity grant from 50kWh to approximately 150kWh for qualifying indigent households to red…

🤔5🤮4💩2

Signed Jane Khaled

11 Aug 2026, 09:02 UTC698 views9 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 NEW PROBLEM FOR HOUSEHOLDS NOW EMPLOYING SOUTH AFRICAN DOMESTIC WORKERS Households have reported that some South African domestic workers have asked their employers not to register them with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). This is because earning the National Minimum Wage (NMW) or more disqualifies them from receiving SASSA grants. The issue has emerged as many households search for local domestic workers…

😁8🤡1

Signed Jane Khaled

10 Aug 2026, 12:05 UTC919 views15 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 SOUTH AFRICAN BANKS COULD GET NEW POWERS TO FREEZE SARS TAX REFUNDS A new Draft Bill proposes allowing South African banks to identify, report and temporarily freeze suspicious SARS tax refunds for up to two business days while the tax authority investigates potential fraud. The 2026 Draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill proposes giving South African banks a greater role in combating tax fraud. It does so…

💅8🤮6👎1

Signed Jane Khaled

10 Aug 2026, 09:00 UTC914 views9 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 GAUTRUN LAND EXPROPRIATION PLANS SLAMMED The expropriation of land, with compensation, to make way for planned new Gautrain stations and rail routes will only negatively impact residents of Gauteng, with little to show for it. This is according to Bobby Ramagwede, CEO of the Automobile Association of South Africa, who said his organisation is vehemently opposed to the rail provider’s planned expansion. The Gautrai…

💊5🤮3👎1

Signed Jane Khaled

9 Aug 2026, 12:05 UTC892 views15 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 WHY SOUTH AFRICA'S UPCOMING FATF EVALUATION MATTERS FOR THE ECONOMY South Africa has less than two months before the first submissions are due for its next Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation – about a year after celebrating its removal from the global watchdog's grey list. While South Africa successfully exited the FATF grey list in October 2025, it remains subject to ongoing checks and visits to ensur…

🍌9🤡5🔥1

Signed Jane Khaled

9 Aug 2026, 09:03 UTC969 views16 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 DRAFT TAX LAW CHANGES COULD AFFECT DONATIONS, VAT, MEDICAL TAXCREDITS AND SARS REFUNDS South Africans could see changes to donations tax, VAT rules, medical scheme tax credits and tax refund processes after the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) published the 2026 Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (TLAB) and Draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill (TALAB) for public comment. The …

💩14❤1👎1

Signed Jane Khaled

8 Aug 2026, 12:01 UTC≈1,070 views6 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 DRIVING LICENCE WARNING IN SOUTH AFRICA EVEN IF YOURS IS STILL VALID A motorist in Johannesburg faced arrest for leaving his valid driving licence at home after traffic officers misinterpreted the new AARTO laws. However, while this incident was not lawful, the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) warned that leaving your driving licence at home is a R1,000 offence under the correct interpretation of the law. …

❤3🍌3

Signed Jane Khaled

8 Aug 2026, 09:01 UTC≈1,150 views20 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 NEW LAWS COMING AFTER HOUSEHOLDS EMPLOYING DOMESTIC WORKERS WITH THREATS OF R100,000 FINES New restrictions and harsh penalties for hiring illegal foreign nationals, including households that employ them as domestic workers, are now being processed by parliament. The Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour has formally received the proposed Employment Services Amendment Bill, initiating the process to put th…

💩12🤔3🤡2🤬2🍌1

Signed Jane Khaled

7 Aug 2026, 12:03 UTC≈1,270 views43 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 NEW LAWS GIVE SARS MORE POWER OVER MONEY IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS IN SOUTH AFRICA New tax legislation could require banks to help the South African Revenue Service (SARS) identify and temporarily freeze funds and payments to taxpayers in South Africa. The proposed changes form part of the 2026 Draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill (TALAB), which was published for public comment alongside the Draft Taxation La…

🤬28🖕13❤1😁1

Signed Jane Khaled

7 Aug 2026, 09:04 UTC≈1,190 views32 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 LUXURY TRIP ON TAXPAYER MONEY: R3.3 MILLION FOR FLIGHTS, R931,870 FOR HOTELS AND R1.5 MILLION FOR SPENDING MONEY.... The Speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL), Morakane Mosupyoe, spent R6 million on a luxury trip for herself and a small group of other officials. This was revealed by the Democratic Alliance (DA), which submitted a motion of censure against Mosupyoe for wasting money on the trip to Ve…

🤬26🍌3💊1🤮1😡1

Signed Jane Khaled

6 Aug 2026, 12:05 UTC≈1,300 views19 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION IS DAMAGING SOUTH AFRICA While the Expropriation Act is intended to redress injustices of South Africa’s past, it can carry unintended negative implications for the country’s economy. The Act, which was quietly signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 23 January 2025, has been touted as something which would best serve the public interest. However, Aluma Capital chief ec…

❤10🤡5👍4

Signed Jane Khaled

6 Aug 2026, 09:03 UTC≈1,230 views8 reactionsread 12 August 2026

🟢 OUTA WITHDRAWS URGENT APPLICATION TO SUSPEND AARTO ROLLOUT The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has withdrawn its urgent application to suspend the implementation of Phase 2 of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system until government complies with its own legal obligations. The application was scheduled to be heard in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday (4 August). Listen/r…

❤4💩4

Signed Jane Khaled

Showing the 12 most recent of 31 posts we hold for @dearsafrica. 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 — 369,129 of 1,480,944entries 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.

South Africa News & Info
@soitbe · 52 posts Jarette Petzer
@jarette · 4161 post MEDICAL FREEDOM FOR ALL
@medical_freedom_for_all · 1841 post Move One Million Info Channel
@MoveOneMillion · 1741 post

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 2 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.

South African Groups & Channels🇿🇦
@SouthAfricanGroupsChannels · 9283 posts South Africa News & Info
@soitbe · 52 posts

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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Dear South Africa” (@dearsafrica), 6,130 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/dearsafrica.

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.