#ZumaMustFall dominated social media over the past week, according to media monitoring company ROi Africa.<\/p>\n
While it received 11.02% of news coverage, on social media, #Zumamustfall took up 51.75% of the conversation on social media over the past week.<\/p>\n
Managing director Tonya Khoury said in a statement that social media “went crazy” towards the end of the week with #ZumaMustFall.<\/p>\n
\u201cROi Africa saw the social media charts change dramatically with the erection of the #ZumaMustFall banner in Cape Town. #GarethCliff was the largest social media story for the early part of the week, then #FeesMustFall started to take the lead but by the end of the week #ZumaMustFall overtook the charts by over half,\u201d Khoury said.<\/p>\n
Cliff came under fire last week after he retweeted a poll that asked if racist social media posts should be treated as criminal acts.<\/p>\n
He wrote: “People really don\u2019t understand free speech at all.”<\/p>\n
Cliff was subsequently fired as a judge from reality television show SA Idols.<\/p>\n
The large “Zuma Must Fall” banner which caused the social media frenzy was put up in the Cape Town CBD on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
It hugged one side of a block of flats at the top of Long Street, on the corner of Kloof and Buitensingel streets.<\/p>\n
It was removed on Saturday by African National Congress supporters and members, who used knives and various sharp objects to tear it off.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, an ANC MP, Bongani Mkongi who took to Facebook on Saturday calling for the banner to be burnt down, along with the building it was on later apologised for his comments.<\/p>\n
In his post, which led to a social media outcry, Mkongi said: \u201cJoin the ANC in Cape Town today at 14h00 to burn down the billboard saying ‘ZumaMustFall’. The billboard must not be lifted down, but, burnt down.”<\/p>\n
One person commented: “We can’t burn it down as it is pasted against an apartment block, people inside the apartment will burn to death. We can remove it though.”<\/p>\n
Mkongi responded with: “They must burn to death as it is life for them to keep it that way.”<\/p>\n