Richard Calland

@richardcalland · Cape Town, South Africa · joined 05 Jun 2012

Africa Director @cisl_cambridge Emeritus Prof., UCT Adjunct @wits_WSG. Gooner, Dad. Partner: The Paternoster Group. Debut play @markettheatre in 2024.

14 215Followers

2 625Following

8 885Posts total

11.7KViews on collected posts

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Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

@richardcalland Intriguing… not following the proceedings but seems I will have to! 134 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

@richardcalland amaFLAW 250 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

@richardcalland Should a president not be held to a higher standard. Tax laws, exchange control, private use of state resources…. 224 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

@richardcalland My lay man ask is that is it possible he may escape scot free despite the money couch? 279 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

Trengove SC, for the President, is now going through each of the four charges against Ramaphosa to show that the Panel failed to apply the ‘sufficient evidence’ and the ‘bad faith and intentionality’ tests properly or at all in some cases. 1.4K views · 24 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

And now, an argument that has been freshly mined by the president’s legal team since the original review application, and it’s a compelling one: the International Criminal Court has an almost identical three stage process: prima facie; sufficient evidence; full trial. 3.2K views · 27 likes · 11 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

Trengove now draws attention to the fact that the impeachment process for chapter 9 bodies (used to remove a public protector) uses the prima facie test for the equivalent panel, and that parliament must have been deliberate in using a different test for the s.89 panel. 1K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

Judge Sher latches onto a point that is pleaded by the President but Trengove has not (yet) argued: that the Panel fails to distinguish between information and evidence - one of the flaws that stood out to me when I first read the panel report late on the night of 30 Nov 2022. 3K views · 41 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Richard Calland@richardcalland2 Sep

My latest @Businessday column engages the growing debate about the role of Middle Powers in an era of predatory hegemonic great powers. https://t.co/rIvTeQjgWC 2.1K views · 11 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views1 005this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.07%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.10%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 005	924	1.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.07%	3.62%	1.95×
Engagement rate	1.10%	1.52%	0.72×

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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

2.1K2 Sep

3.2K

1.4K

279

224

250

134

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.10%2 Sep

1.77%

1.49%

1.30%

2.05%

0.36%

0.89%

0.40%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes63.7%116 in total

Reposts19.8%36 in total

Replies6.0%11 in total

Quotes2.2%4 in total

Bookmarks8.2%15 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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