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Hopewell Chin’ono ✓

@daddyhope · World Citizen🇿🇼 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 · joined 12 Sep 2009

Award winning Journalist| Film Maker |2 Time African Journalist of The Year | Nieman Fellow| #100MostInfluentialAfricans 2022 | Email hopewell2@post.harvard.edu

890 585Followers
5 027Following
62 140Posts total
7.4MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

This is a welcome and encouraging development for both Zimbabwe and the United States. Credit must be given to the leadership of Zimbabwe for creating space and an environment for this engagement to happen. For many years, Zimbabwe's relationship with the United States has been h
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Big up to the reggae superstar Luciano @jahmessenjah. This was filmed over the weekend in Birmingham. The Rasta man says Zimbabwe must look after the vulnerable. Big up to Hillary Tafadzwa Mafupa who sent it to me. https://t.co/oRxq4Jd98J
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Yesterday, my friend Estelle Adams took me to a restaurant in Milton Keynes called Braai Shack Restaurant, a beautiful Zimbabwean-owned establishment run by ladies from Bulawayo. It is situated at 42 Church Street, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK12 5JN. To say that I was https
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I agree with this opinion piece published on the SABC website. Xenophobic politics often emerge whenever elections are held in South Africa. Opportunistic political actors take genuine social and economic problems and falsely present illegal immigration as their primary cause, 21.7K views · 102 likes · 22 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →
Opinion | Illegal immigration as a political strategy is not patriotism, but low-hanging fruit in our political landscape for a seat in the legislature. https://t.co/PSEYCFtLp5 https://t.co/b0CnT0cv1G
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Proudly Kwerekwere, living legally in South Africa and paying my taxes. You will have to find a better insult, brother. This one does not bother me. 125.8K views · 1.4K likes · 121 reposts · 79 replies Open on X →
@daddyhope @dailymaverick @daddyhope please don't forget that you are a kwere kwere, not a South African and never will be ✊✊✊ 110.5K views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 66 replies Open on X →
This is an important article in the @dailymaverick which confirms that a substantial amount of hate against foreign nationals in South Africa was manufactured using bots on social media. We have always said this that a significant amount of xenophobic messaging on social media is 18K views · 139 likes · 59 reposts · 27 replies Open on X →
Assistant Secretary Frank Garcia met Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Amon Murwira @MoFA_ZW today. They discussed opportunities to deepen U.S.-Zimbabwe commercial ties as the U.S. #UNGA81 https://t.co/TEqy5eWkB9
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Well done 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 117.5K views · 290 likes · 32 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
BREAKING: US broadcasters NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox have said they will not provide pool coverage of Donald Trump's events today. It comes after the president banned three major news outlets from the White House for "reporting fake news". Read more: https://t.co/0tDjVM8zEd htt
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It is not only Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema and Helen Zille who are saying this. Even Herman Mashaba is now saying the same thing. Yet Julius Malema is the only one who gets attacked for expressing this view. That is the consequence of personality politics, where people judge an ht
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@daddyhope So people should jump the border daily and walk straight to home affairs to be properly documented in case they commit crime 🤔. 10.6K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Jacob Zuma is repeating what Julius Malema has been saying for a long time; undocumented immigrants should be properly documented so that authorities know who is in the country and can hold anyone who commits a crime accountable through the law. But in a society where some https
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What did I tell you about Zambia? 🤣🤣🤣 Zimbabweans know how this begins. It starts with one person being sent out to test the waters. When there is resistance, they will claim that she is a lone wolf simply expressing her personal views. The person who stands to benefit will htt
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Dear Tawanda, I use my social media platforms to assist Zimbabweans who need help, not because I am obliged to do so, but because it is the right thing to do for someone with more than two million followers on three social media platforms. When someone offers to help, it is not
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“Testing the waters: UPND MP calls for removal of presidential term limit” By Shadreck Jere UPND Proportional Representation (PR) MP Florence Chileshe Chama says women in Zambia don’t want democracy but development, which she says can be achieved by supporting President 113.2K views · 83 likes · 7 reposts · 54 replies Open on X →
I love this picture. She is one of the most important people in the history of my country. Tell me what you know about her and the role she played in shaping Zimbabwe and your life if you were old enough to be in her sphere of influence. https://t.co/rEIVnhMvGa
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I hope men will take lessons from this. Open zip and shut mind has consequences! 25.5K views · 138 likes · 17 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →
He has been asked to hand himself to police by a South African cabinet minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga. Imagine losing everything due to stupidity. All because of an open zip shut mentality! https://t.co/WiiTFNWbrx
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CHARGED | Lawrence Chamurwa Mudzinganyama has been charged and will make his first appearance in Randburg Magistrates’ Court on the 01 October 2026. https://t.co/sqgVMx5yOV
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Arrogance has a price! No matter how much money you have, learn to respect women when they say NO. His arrogance will cost him millions, and probably go to jail. It is so embarrassing that, despite having all those millions, the
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Thank you for assisting the young man. Thank you to everyone who retweeted the post. 61.1K views · 995 likes · 67 reposts · 36 replies Open on X →
10000 USD will be deposited TOMORROW MONDAY at 830 a.m in the morning WITHOUT FAIL... Blessed SUNDAY and wishing him a speedy recovery...🙏🙏🙏 342.6K views · 2.4K likes · 270 reposts · 739 replies Open on X →
You are right. Many Africans are not ideological; they simply follow the wind. Even educated people were lying about Donald Trump’s supposed economic genius, despite the fact that he is one of the worst presidents in modern American history. Fanaticism has damaged Africa and htt
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@daddyhope @daddyhope l think you make a mistake in thinking Africans want democracy. Most idolise dictators like how they cheer for Putin Xi Trump etc. Reason why they cry foul at home is just because they not in the system. Look at HH🤣. Even NC is a dictator 1.2K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
You are repeating Donald Trump’s nonsense, my dear brother. He clearly struggles to explain what the so-called “fake news” actually is. Please tell me, what fake news have CNN, Politico and MSNBC reported? You tell us. Name the specific stories and provide the evidence. What I
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Google’s artificial intelligence system, Gemini, escaped its testing environment in May and hacked into three companies, the search giant said on Friday, reports the New York Times. https://t.co/37BtFUI40K 10.7K views · 52 likes · 6 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →
@daddyhope WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT FAKE NEWS BEING REPORTED BY CNN YOU NEED TO PRESENT BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY HOPEWEL... 7.6K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
We are waiting for today’s football results from my dear brother-friend, @LanceGuma . Be patient. 13.5K views · 30 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

90 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views18 354this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %2.06%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.56%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post18 3545 9833.07×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.06%1.49%1.38×
Engagement rate0.56%0.93%0.60×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

94.9K21 Sep
10.6K
16.5K
2.4M
117.5K
49.7K22 Sep
18K
110.5K
125.8K
24.8K23 Sep
21.7K
36.8K
29.5K
27.8K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.76%21 Sep
0.01%
0.16%
0.58%
0.29%
0.63%22 Sep
1.25%
0.08%
1.31%
0.33%23 Sep
0.69%
1.17%
1.91%
0.49%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes70.7%26 349 in total
Reposts13.7%5 097 in total
Replies7.6%2 836 in total
Quotes1.9%714 in total
Bookmarks6.1%2 264 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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